Passengers on a flight to Israel have recounted how they subdued a pilot after he stabbed the other pilot and appeared to be trying to disable the plane, while others described the "terrifying" moment they thought they would die.

Appearing in a bloodstained shirt after the ordeal, Yaniv Hayun told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu he realised something was wrong when the aircraft suddenly dropped.

The plane, en route from Dubai to Tel Aviv, plummeted 17,000ft (5,200m) in less than two minutes.

"Someone screamed... the light went out," Hayun said in a video posted by the prime minister on social media.

He and others tried to push open the cockpit d...

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