India, Sept. 30 -- A passenger on the flydubai flight traveling from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates to Israel and was forced to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia described what happened inside the plane and said that someone had stabbed the pilot with a pocketknife.

"We heard screams on the plane. Then they opened the cockpit and we saw blood, and someone had stabbed the pilot with a pocketknife," Times of Israel cited an unnamed woman as saying via a text message.

The woman also reported said that crew members and Israeli passengers aboard the plane helped to bring the attacked under control.

Another passenger also recalled the horror, saying that the pilots lost control of the plane after one of them was stabbed and "serio...