Flydubai rescue disputed Witnesses and caveats

Sep 30

Grigory Yemelyanov questions the account of Flydubai FZ1073's rescue. Passenger and plumber Yaniv Hayon says he pulled an attacker out of the cockpit and pulled back on the controls, having watched air-crash programmes. The report shows Netanyahu welcoming him at the airport the previous day, calling him a hero and asking about the control column. Yemelyanov also claims Israeli fighters were scrambled and the airliner was denied landing at Ben Gurion. Former pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko disputes the plausibility of an amateur recovering a steeply diving aircraft with damaged tail surfaces and says control-column and rudder work would be required. Georgian dentist Shota Musaev describes helping the stabbed pilot. The correspondent contrasts these accounts with earlier, now-displaced rumours of Russian and Ukrainian pilots, and presents the coincidences as suspicious. An attributed Fars/Iranian-security claim alleges an Israeli plan to blame Iran for aviation terrorism. Netanyahu says Iran seeks attacks before Israel's election, but explicitly says he does not know whether this flight incident was part of that plan. Simon Tsipis describes doubts and recalls Netanyahu's September 29 cadet remarks. Yemelyanov speculates about electoral and corruption-trial incentives while explicitly saying the programme cannot state the scenario with certainty. These are witness accounts, technical criticism and political suspicions, not findings that the incident was staged or that Iran was involved.

During his September 30 Hannity appearance, Netanyahu alleges that Iran wants to attack Israel and Israelis abroad and says there is clear evidence of intended attacks before Israel's election. He explicitly says it is not yet known whether the Flydubai incident was part of that plan. Vremya's October 1 report replays the claim and caveat, then discusses electoral and corruption-case incentives and carries Simon Tsipis's reported doubts, with the correspondent explicitly unable to establish the suspected scenario. These are Netanyahu's warning and attributed critical responses, not findings of Iranian involvement or political staging.