India, Sept. 30 -- There were reportedly two additional pilots on the flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv that was diverted to Saudi Arabia's Tabuk, where it landed safely after an "incident". After a physical altercation broke out between the pilot-in-command and the co-pilot, a passenger had to "shake" the additional pilots to get them to take control of the plane as they had initially frozen.

"I had to shake them to get them to move to the front and take control of the plane because it was diving," the passenger said, according to Zvika Klein, editor of The Jerusalem Post, who wrote about the account on his X timeline.

HT could not independently confirm the passenger's account.

"He (the passenger) said the additional pilots were ...