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.

On September 30, Netanyahu meets Flydubai passenger Yaniv Hayoun and his family at Ben Gurion Airport after the passengers' return. In the GPO release he calls Hayoun a hero, examines the blood on his shirt and praises his actions; Hayoun says he repeatedly requested luggage to change clothes and offers qualified recollections of the flight's timing and position. Longer airport replays in France 2 and Kan carry Hayoun's account of removing the attacker and pulling back on the controls, with knowledge he says came from television. France 2 characterizes the reception as a convenient pre-election photo opportunity. Vremya alleges deliberate presentation in bloodstained clothing and airs Konstantin Yaroshenko disputing the amateur recovery account. These appraisals and allegations remain attributed; the reception footage does not settle the flight's motive or establish political staging. In his October 1 Fox & Friends interview, Netanyahu explicitly recalls meeting the family at the airport the previous day and asking Hayoun's wife not to wash the bloodstained clothing. The complete question and answer also describe the wounded captain's injuries and the dentist, passengers and relief pilots' teamwork. These are his retrospective account and praise, preserved from the newer existing source; they do not establish the flight's cause.