Tel Aviv, Sept. 30 -- The flydubai rescue flight from Saudi Arabia has landed at Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel, carrying passengers from an earlier diverted flydubai flight, The Times of Israel reported.

According to The Times of Israel, the rescue flight carried about 180 passengers from the diverted Tel Aviv-bound flight, most Israelis.

The flight was diverted amid an altercation in the cockpit, when the passengers in civilian clothes made an emergency landing at the Tabuk airport.

The pilot who was stabbed and severely wounded aboard flydubai flight FZ1073, which made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia, was an Indian national, Israel's i24 News reported.

The Indian national reportedly got into the altercation to prev...