A jet falls 14,000 feet in 29 seconds, fast enough that nobody is walking the aisle, and then a plumber who learned to fly from television is credited with defying both the laws of physics and of cockpit security enters the flight deck mid descent, wrestles with the copilot and pulls the flight out of the dive somehow miraculously without snapping the plane in two (a near impossibility even for an experienced pilot).
Then the flight’s spare set of pilots (who knew flights had those, right?) took over the flight deck from this Super Mario and would then fly the plane to Tabuk in KSA and land it safely.
No spilled water cups, no mess or damage to the cabin, no oxygen masks falling from the ceiling. In fact, passengers film themselves, and others in confusion as to what’s actually happening.
But, the thing is, 7 minutes after the dive, the general emergency code 7700 goes out, (notifying ground control that, among other things the crew have lost the ability to control the flight) even though by this point the Israeli “Jason Statham” has already recovered the flight trajectory from certain death and gained control of the flight deck.
Another 7 minutes after this the 7500 code goes out, notifying air traffic control that the aircraft is under unlawful interference, or someone is forcing, or trying to force, a change in the flight who is not entitled to control it.
But by that time the spare pilots have control of the aircraft and are supposedly en route to Tabuk.
By bedtime the official narrative is that Israel has a foiled 9/11, and an Israeli hero (an ordinary plumber in a blood-stained shirt - and socks strangely enough) is being hugged on Israeli national TV by none other than Benjamin Netanyahu - the very man who, less than 48 hours prior had warned Israelis to expect a 9/11 style terrorist attack on its soil.
Meanwhile the states holding the fight recorders are still calling it an altercation, and have sent both the pilot and copilot back to Dubai for medical treatment and debriefing - neither has been placed under arrest.
Mike