A stabbing, an emergency alert, a terrifying mid-air plunge.Details are still emerging after an Israel-bound flight carrying some 180 people emitted a distress signal Wednesday, raising fears of a possible hijacking when one pilot stabbed the other in the cockpit.Aviatar Alevi, who was onboard the Flydubai flight Wednesday, described people “screaming, running, panicking, blood.”“At the start I thought it was a plane malfunction, but then I started hearing screaming about the stabbings,” Alevi, 17, told NBC News.
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