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Video taking off 53x its usual first day

Patrick Christys on the Flydubai hijacking opens at fifty times GB News' usual pace

The segment centers on the passengers who helped bring the plane back under control, and in seven hours it had drawn more than most of the channel's videos see in weeks.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 181,507 views a day, 53 times a normal first day on this channel (3,396).

'Jihadi terrorism in the skies!' | Patrick Christys on motive behind hijacking of Israeli flight'Jihadi terrorism in the skies!' | Patrick Christys on motive behind hijacking of Israeli flight

"'Jihadi terrorism in the skies!' | Patrick Christys on motive behind hijacking of Israeli flight" is a segment from GB News, the British broadcaster's evening presenter reacting to the hijacking of a Flydubai flight bound for Israel. Seven hours after it went up, it had passed 80,000 views.

A new GB News upload usually reaches about 3,400 people in its first day. This one is on course for more than fifty times that. Yesterday's Andy Burnham pension segment stood out at eleven times the usual start, so this is a far bigger moment for the channel. Another Christys segment posted the same evening, on a deportation case, has drawn roughly a quarter of the views.

The description presents the video as Christys's response to what it calls every passenger's worst nightmare. It also points to the people on board who managed to regain control of the aircraft.

That is where most of the comments go. Viewers keep returning to the pilot and to the passengers who stepped in. Many also discuss how other broadcasters, the BBC in particular, reported the attack.

Across the whole channel, daily views are running a little above their usual level, and one evening segment accounts for much of that.

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The facts
Channel
GBNews
Subscribers
2,190,000
Channel views, pace per day
1,946,086 (on a normal day: 1,751,384)
Video published
September 30, 2026
Video views so far
81,914 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day
181,507

The numbers

The figures show a first day far outside the channel's usual range, from a single segment.

the video's first day
usual first day here
3,396
this video
181,507
subscribers
2,190,000
total views
2,987,871,114
views per day
1,946,086
typical day: 1,751,384
the video
views
81,914
likes
1,560
comments
590
days online
1
compared with similar channels (subscribers)
NowThis
2,230,000
BBC World Service
2,220,000
CBC News: The National
2,200,000
GBNews
2,190,000
Localish
2,180,000
AccuWeather
2,160,000
As of October 1, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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