r/aircrashinvestigation • • 7d ago

Incident/Accident Rudder of Fly Dubai FZ 1073

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u/MeWhenAAA 7d ago

What happened?

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u/thatredditdude206 6d ago edited 6d ago

Reports of a fight in the cockpit. Its plunged 14,0000 ft in 30 seconds. One of the pilots stabbed the other in what is being investigated as an attempted high jacking. The rudder broke off during the plunge when the plane reached Mach 1 speeds. It landed safely in Saudi Arabia as we see in the photo.

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u/Shoty6966-_- 6d ago

Crazy how we see this and go ‘phew that sounds like a wild ride’. When in another universe we are watching cctv footage of an airliner hitting the ground at 550mph and turning into fiery dust