Kareen Wynter's hijacking report gives KTLA 5 its third fast start in four days

The AP footage from the Dubai to Tel Aviv flight drew about thirteen times a usual first day for the Los Angeles station, well ahead of its own follow-up on the same story.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 152,042 views a day, 13 times a normal first day on this channel (11,665).

New video emerges of hijacking attempt of Israel-bound airliner

What happened on board the plane from Dubai to Tel Aviv? Passengers say they wrestled with the attacker after the captain was stabbed in the cockpit and the plane dove sharply. The jet then made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. That is the account at the center of "New video emerges of hijacking attempt of Israel-bound airliner," an Associated Press report presented by KTLA's Kareen Wynter.

Six hours after it went up, it had passed 60,000 views. That is a pace of about thirteen times what a new KTLA 5 upload usually draws in a full day. A second report on the same flight, Rachel Menitoff's piece posted the following day, has drawn only a fraction of that so far.

The comments are mostly made of questions. Many viewers point to the relief crew who happened to be on board. Some ask why the oxygen masks did not drop, others argue over whether the plane truly plunged or made a controlled emergency descent, and several are still trying to work out who attacked whom.

This follows a busy few days for the station. As we reported here, a small South Bay earthquake and then an In-N-Out story both moved fast. The channel is now running at about twice its usual daily pace. Its regular local reporting continues around it, from a federal film and TV tax credit bill to an orca pod filmed off Dana Point.

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The numbers

The figures show a single report pulling far ahead of the station's usual first day, on a channel that was already busier than normal.

the video's first day

usual first day here

11,665

this video

152,042

subscribers

1,510,000

total views

1,794,382,095

views per day

4,163,714

typical day: 2,027,064

the video

views

60,334

likes

382

comments

126

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

WFAA

2,190,000

KTLA 5

1,510,000

FOX 11 Los Angeles

1,360,000

CBS New York

1,200,000

CBS LA

1,160,000

FOX 13 Tampa Bay

1,080,000

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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