UAE presidential adviser Anwar Gargash said on Friday that the incident aboard a flydubai flight headed from Dubai to Tel Aviv was a "terrorist act", as he praised the courage of the captain attacked by his co-pilot.
Five miners were killed and two others were injured after a collapse at a mining operation in Soma, a district of Manisa province in western Türkiye, according to local authorities.
An official source at the Ministry of Interior stated that the relevant authorities in the Kingdom took the necessary measures to deal with the emergency declared on Flydubai flight FZ1073 and granted the aircraft permission to make an emergency landing at Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Airport in Tabuk on Wednesday, September 30, 2026.