A FlyDubai flight report nears 300,000 views in seven hours for The Canadian Press
An Associated Press clip about a Tel Aviv-bound plane drew in a few hours what the agency's videos usually gather over many days.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 712,832 views a day, 2087 times a normal first day on this channel (342).
What to know about the terrifying FlyDubai flight bound for Israel
"What to know about the terrifying FlyDubai flight bound for Israel" is a short Associated Press video carried by The Canadian Press, Canada's national news agency. It covers a flight from the United Arab Emirates to Tel Aviv on which, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a pilot stabbed the co-pilot in the cockpit while trying to take control of the plane, with the aim of crashing it.
Seven hours after it went up, the clip had close to 300,000 views. A new video on this channel usually reaches a few hundred in its whole first day.
The agency followed with a second clip from the same story. In it, Netanyahu meets Yaniv Hayoun, one of the passengers on board the plane, which was diverted to Saudi Arabia, and calls him a hero. That follow-up has had a far smaller audience so far.
The rest of the agency's day looked more like its usual mix. Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew spoke at the former site of the Brandon Indian Residential School on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Two giant pandas arrived in Atlanta. Calgary Flames general manager Craig Conroy spoke about his team's need for more scoring in its farewell season at the Saddledome.
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- Channel
- The Canadian Press
- Subscribers
- 176,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 279,425 (on a normal day: 351,554)
- Video published
- September 30, 2026
- Video views so far
- 286,460 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 712,832
The numbers
The figures below show how far this one report stands apart from the agency's usual first day.

