Chamath condemns media whitewashing of the Fly Dubai hijacking attempt PALIHAPITIYA: "A Omani national stabbed an Indian pilot and then tried to down a plane full of Israelis. That is what happened. And any attempt to try to cover up any of those facts is cowardly. I've worked in Israel. I've had some incredible memories there. I think at some point we all just need to take a step back and realize what happened October 7th was horrible. What's happened in Palestine also horrible. But you cannot now see these kinds of things and look past them because you care more about a narrative than what the facts are. Those were 150, 170 earnest, normal people living lives." "Fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, kids. They didn't deserve to get plunged into the ground and die. So I think this idea that you can now whitewash what happens, enough is enough. And I think we need to find a way to actually tell the truth for what things are. So I was really disappointed in how the media handled it." "And I think it's dangerous. And I think it's yet another demonstration that these people have absolutely no moral authority left in society. They're just pathetic, putrid," "And they're, and by the way, they're coordinated. When you see the words, the same words over and over. Altercation, altercation, altercation. It's very powerful. It means that it starts from one place." "And I think that, you know, if you believe that you are reading this stuff and you're getting the facts, you're just not. And so," FRIEDBERG: "Well, it implies that one guy did something wrong to the other guy and they got in a fight. That's not what happened. That's what it implies." --- A chronological, fact-only reconstruction of how the FlyDubai FZ1073 cockpit attack unfolded and was thwarted mid-flight. On FlyDubai Flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv, an Omani co-pilot stabbed Captain Smit Machchhar and forced the Boeing 737 into a rapid dive. Despite severe stab wounds, the captain unlocked the cockpit door, allowing passengers and relief crew to intervene mid-flight. The verified record of the incident: • Flight FZ1073 was carrying 174 passengers, mostly Israeli citizens, from Dubai to Tel Aviv. • After the captain unlocked the door, passengers and crew stormed the cockpit and physically restrained the co-pilot. • The crew pulled the Boeing 737 out of its dive and stabilized the aircraft. • The pilots transmitted emergency transponder codes and diverted to Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. • Captain Machchhar was hospitalized upon landing, and all 174 passengers survived. • Authorities in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Israel have opened a joint investigation.