Flight 1073's cockpit attack and a halt to Tel Aviv flights lead GMA's Saturday
Tom Soufi-Burridge's short report on FlyDubai drew more viewers in thirteen hours than a new Good Morning America video usually gets in a full day, many times over.
Good Morning AmericaStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 72,777 views a day, 19 times a normal first day on this channel (3,802).
New details in cockpit attack as FlyDubai suspends flights to Tel Aviv
Hard news led the weekend. Good Morning America's channel is usually busiest with recipes, celebrity sit-downs and pop culture, but the clip that pulled ahead on Saturday was a short report from ABC News correspondent Tom Soufi-Burridge on FlyDubai Flight 1073.
The report covers new details about the attack in the plane's cockpit earlier in the week, which the description calls an attempted hijacking, and the airline's decision to suspend its flights to Tel Aviv. Thirteen hours after it went up it had about 54,000 views. A new GMA video usually ends its whole first day below 4,000.
It was not the only serious story to travel. In a second report, the mother of Colleen Slemmer, the 19-year-old Christa Pike killed in 1995, speaks after the failed attempt to execute Pike, and it passed 40,000 views over the same hours. The rest of Saturday's uploads, from diesel reserves to the rising cost of Halloween, stayed far behind both.
Under the FlyDubai report, the comments are less about the airline's schedule than about the account itself. Many viewers question how the events in the cockpit could have unfolded the way they were described, and others ask how the suspect's background was checked before he was allowed to fly.
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- Channel
- Good Morning America
- Subscribers
- 5,510,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 7,855,227
- Channel views, pace per day
- 625,203 (on a normal day: 1,196,532)
- Video published
- October 3, 2026
- Video views so far
- 53,874 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 72,777
The numbers
Both of Saturday's crime and security reports started far faster than a usual Good Morning America upload.
