Questions About the Flydubai Hijacking Attempt and 737 MAX Descent

Okay, someone out there more intelligent than me, I need your help.

I don't have the answers, but I have some questions.

By now, you've heard about the attempted hijacking of the Flydubai flight.

Preliminary information indicates the co-pilot who stabbed the captain acted intentionally and intended to crash the plane, basically doing a 911.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is also revealing new details, saying the plane went into a spin and began to nosedive before a passenger and crew broke into the cockpit and subdued the co-pilot.

What you saw there was a three-time speed 3D recreation of the data from the transponder and flight following of that flight. In case you missed it, here it is again.

Please watch this carefully.

Now, that's just the tail end of that data, but what that shows is the end of a 17,000-foot loss of altitude, what appears to be a half of a flat spin, and a recovery.

Total time as far as I can tell is 29 seconds from apogee, highest point to lowest point, through the flat spin, halfway of flat spin, to recovery, roughly 30 seconds. And just so you know that I'm not getting my details wrong about what the narrative is, is behind it, here is Mr. Netanyahu himself talking about it.

As during the flight, they were approaching Israel, one of the pilots stabbed the other pilot and apparently attempted to crash the plane with everyone on board. I spoke with one of the Israeli passengers.

He told me that the plane went into a spin and began to nosedive. He told me that somehow he managed to break into the cockpit with one of the crew members, and together they subdued the pilot who carried out the stabbing while he was attempting to sabotage the aircraft system. An additional

flight crew was on board, entered the cockpit, and managed to stabilize the aircraft. I salute these heroes who demonstrated extraordinary resourcefulness and courage.

They saved many lives and prevented a major disaster.

Netanyahu saying, again, that plane was able to land safely in Saudi Arabia, and we're seeing reports that they're trying to get people back on a different plane to get them back here to Tel Aviv.

So we will be watching that very closely.

Obviously, a lot of families- Okay, that clip was roughly 60 seconds long.

That's twice as long as the amount of time that the story he just told apparently takes place in. Aren't cockpit doors locked?

They broke into it? And there also happened to already be another crew on board? An aircraft falls 17,500 feet, goes into half a flat spin, recovers in 29 seconds, and during that descent and flat spin, two individuals break in to a supposedly secure locked cockpit.

Strong-arm a guy who is armed, take him under control, and then recover the plane.

Here's what else is really weird. It's a 737 MAX. That's the aircraft.

Do you remember anything about the 737 MAX a few years ago?

Let me go ahead and just update you on the specifications of how that plane actually works. So if you remember in 2018, 2019, the 737 MAX had some safety issues. They were, like, just nosing over and, and basically crashing, and so they had to be grounded.

The problem with the 737 MAX during that time was the MCAS, which is known as the maneuvering characteristics augmentation system. Yeah, I had to look at my screen and just remember what it stood for. Now, the FAA, um, will spin-rate aircraft.

I'm gonna oversimplify this, but it basically is the ability for an aircraft to come out of a spin. The 737 MAX is not technically spin-rated, rather the MCAS is meant to prevent it from entering one. It also prevents the aircraft from going into a very steep angle of attack, one that would drop an aircraft

17,500 feet. So an aircraft that has software built into it that is meant to control it from ever spinning in the first place, meant to eliminate its very steep angle of attack that apparently just occurred, that had a locked cockpit, a secondary crew, and in 29 seconds,

an individual stabs the other pilot, makes the plane do something that the software from the manufacturer itself says it can't do, essentially enters a free fall, and during that time, two individuals break in, again, to the locked cockpit, get control of the guy, hold him down, recover the aircraft.

I'm sorry, it just doesn't make any sense. I don't know what's going on. I don't have an answer.

I reserve the right to be wrong, but it is opposite of true, things you hang on a pole season, and this seems just par for the course.

Please let me know what you think, and I am genuinely grateful that everyone seems to be okay and safe. Glory to God for all that.

As always, y'all take care.