Did Boeing Workers Save Flydubai Passengers?
A Flydubai 737 MAX headed from Dubai to Tel Aviv nearly went down this week after officials said the co-pilot stabbed the captain and tried to crash the plane. The jet may have briefly hit the speed of sound in the dive. Photos show a rudder chewed up by flutter. Aviation analyst John Nance called it "incredibly improbable" that the airplane came back.
A plumber in the cabin grabbed the yoke. Two off-duty pilots took over and landed the plane in Saudi Arabia. 174 people walked off, 27 of them children. That plane was built in Renton. Charlie Harger on the passengers who fought their way into the cockpit and the Boeing workers across Western Washington whose work held together when nothing else should have.
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