Screams turned to cheers: a passenger films the flydubai hijack attempt

news.com.au's clip from the Dubai-Tel Aviv flight left the rest of the site's day far behind, and its comment section filled even faster than its views.

Channel: news.com.auStory of October 3, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 236,714 views a day, 44 times a normal first day on this channel (5,399).

Inside the attempted hijacking of flight to Israel

Most short clips on news.com.au end their first day with a few thousand views. "Inside the attempted hijacking of flight to Israel" passed 230,000 in its first 24 hours, and it was still climbing after that.

The footage comes from a passenger. It was filmed on board a flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv during what Israeli officials described as an attempt to crash the plane. The description sums it up in one line: screams that turned to cheers. The video's tags mention a Boeing 737 MAX and a diversion to Tabuk airport in Saudi Arabia.

The comments came in even faster than the views, about 26 times quicker than on a usual first day for the channel's shorts. Much of the discussion picks over the footage itself, from the seat belts to the oxygen masks.

The site posted several other clips the same day: an Australian yacht sunk by a whale in the South Pacific, an electric car crashing into a Chinese shrine in Thailand, and decommissioned robots sent into molten steel. The robots did best of that group, still short of 16,000 views. Across the whole channel, daily views ran at more than twice their usual pace.

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The numbers

One passenger's footage did most of the work on a day when the whole channel ran well above its usual pace.

the video's first day

usual first day here

5,399

this video

236,714

subscribers

1,390,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

1,486,278,938

views per day

1,339,841

typical day: 581,098

the video

views

262,030

likes

560

comments

543

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

ETimes

1,530,000

LBC

1,530,000

TalkTV

1,470,000

news.com.au

1,390,000

Times Radio

1,300,000

Times Now World

1,290,000

As of October 3, 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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