A passenger from Flydubai 1073 tells Captain Steeeve what he saw in the cockpit
The pilot's breakdown of the Dubai-Tel Aviv emergency passed 2.8 million views, and two investigation updates on a Prime Air 767 and a Vietnam Airlines 787 followed it up the channel.
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What REALLY Happened Inside the Cockpit of Flydubai 1073?!
On a usual day Captain Steeeve's channel draws somewhere around half a million views. Right now it is drawing about twice that, and one video set it off.
"What REALLY Happened Inside the Cockpit of Flydubai 1073?!" goes over the flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv on which the captain was attacked inside the cockpit and the airplane dropped thousands of feet. The injured captain got the cockpit door open, people aboard stepped in, and the jet diverted safely to Tabuk in Saudi Arabia. Steeeve walks through the flight data and the procedures, but this time he also hands the floor to a passenger who helped during the emergency and describes what he saw and how the cabin responded.
That choice is what the comments keep coming back to: many viewers thank him for letting the man tell his story without interruptions. The rest of the discussion turns to the people on board, the captain who sent the emergency codes and reached the door despite his injuries, and a mother who heard the struggle and asked an attendant to check.
The channel kept its usual investigator's rhythm around it. A breakdown of the NTSB's preliminary report on the deadly Prime Air Boeing 767 crash in Miami went up a day later, and a Vietnam Airlines 787 tail strike in Munich, with a question about brake activity on the takeoff roll, followed. Both are now gathering views faster than the Flydubai video itself. Earlier in the week, a runway incursion at SFO and a Lufthansa A340 that turned at JFK before getting clearance did steady business.
About 10,000 new subscribers arrived over the seven days. Among aviation and machine channels of similar size, Aaron Rheins had the biggest week by a distance, and Pilot Debrief and Dorothy Lech were busy too.
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- Channel
- Captain Steeeve
- Subscribers
- 1,200,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 5,035,703
- Videos published this week
- 5
- Video published
- October 1, 2026
- Video views so far
- 2,822,421
- Views on its first day
- 1,731,196
The numbers
Here is how Captain Steeeve's week looks in figures.
