Passengers and a gravely wounded pilot averted a potential 9/11-style terror attack yesterday after a bloody tussle with a knifeman at 34,000ft.
The brave flight captain was stabbed by his co-pilot but managed to open the flight-deck door and call for help.
At which point passengers piled into the cockpit and overpowered the attacker.
The extraordinary melee on Flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv sent the plane hurtling towards the Saudi Arabian desert.
Israel believes the co-pilot was planning to seize the controls and crash the plane into a target in Israel, possibly a skyscraper.
Passengers and crew wrestled the knifeman to the floor
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