Trump calls passenger intervention on Israel-bound Flydubai flight attack ‘an incredible story’

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President Donald Trump said he spoke with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about a an attack aboard a Flydubai flight bound for Israel that plummeted thousands of feet amid an attack and stabbing of it’s pilot Wednesday, calling the story "incredible."

"It seems as though the copilot was perhaps a terrorist or perhaps as whack job," Trump said, later praising the passenger’s heroics.

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