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The passengers and pilot who thwarted the hijacking of a fly Dubai plane received a hero's welcome as more details come to light about the attack.

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One of the pilots stabbed the other one, and the passenger and the crew member took over, got control.

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A group of passengers aboard an Israel-bound passenger jet stopped an attempted terror attack on Wednesday. Here with more details is wired in host Cabot Phillips. So Cabot, a dramatic sequence of events yesterday. We're all riveted watching the updates from this in the footage streaming in. So what exactly took place?

Cabot Phillips (3:49)

Yeah, some of the most just incredible and graphic footage that you're ever going to see flooding social media yesterday. This all took place on Fly Dubai Flight 1073 It's a Boeing 737 MAX that was flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv with 174 passengers aboard, most of whom were Israeli. About two hours into the flight as the plane approached Israel, the Arab co-pilot from the country of Oman pulled out a knife and stabbed the captain, an Indian man.

Flight tracking then showed the plane dropping 17,000 feet in less than two minutes. Passengers obviously were panicking and it sent out the transponder code signaling a hijacking incident to air traffic control. The Israeli Air Force scrambled fighter jets and had a secret security meeting, but by some miracle the plane leveled out and landed safely in Saudi Arabia and everyone on board survived. And now we know that that miracle took place because of the heroic actions of folks on board.

John Bickley (4:42)

Right, and those heroic actions were carried out by passengers, correct?

Cabot Phillips (4:47)

Yeah, that's right. So passengers say that they knew something was wrong when they began to hear screaming coming from the cockpit. Some passengers said they heard the words, Allahu Akbar, shout it out. And we now know that the co-pilot stabbed the pilot while they were cruising altitude and the heroic pilot, despite suffering severe injuries, was able to crawl to the door bloody of the cockpit and open up that door.