Author: Japan Reacts Editorial

On September 30, a co-pilot stabbed the captain with a knife aboard a flydubai jet (a UAE budget airline), sending the aircraft plunging roughly 4,300 meters from a cruising altitude of about 10,000 meters. Passengers who noticed something was wrong stormed the cockpit and subdued the co-pilot, and an off-duty pilot who happened to be on board took over the controls and made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. On 5ch, discussion centered on the split-second decision of the passenger who pulled back on the control column, the circumstances behind why multiple off-duty pilots are often aboard international flights, and the differences in how various countries’ media covered the story.

On September 30, a flydubai passenger jet from the United Arab Emirates made an emergency landing in northwestern Saudi Arabia while en route from Dubai to Tel Aviv, Israel’s commercial hub. The co-pilot stabbed the captain, and the plane plunged about 4,300 meters. Passengers and crew entered the cockpit and overpowered the co-pilot. So what actually happened on board, at roughly 10,000 meters up?

The incident occurred about two hours and twenty minutes after takeoff. According to the Associated Press, passengers witnessed the co-pilot stab the captain. When passengers rushed in and forced their way into the cockpit, the co-pilot reportedly appeared to be trying to smash the flight controls.

As passengers grappled with the co-pilot, one of them grabbed the control column and pulled it back, mimicking something he’d seen on television. Another crew member then reportedly took over the controls. Flydubai said crew secured the aircraft and “changed course to land the plane safely.”

Source: asahi.com / Read the original article here

*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (News Flash+) thread “Plane Plunges, Captain Stabbed: How Did Passengers Stop the Crash?“

A former University of Tokyo professor received entertainment at a soapland (a Japanese bathhouse-style brothel) in exchange for granting favors related to cosmetics business dealings, Daily Shincho reported on October 1. According to testimony from the businessman who bribed him, the professor procured erectile dysfunction medication from a pharmacy beforehand, insisted on showering before each session and on being the “first customer of the day” (kuchiake), and even held a post-session “kansōsen” — literally a shogi/go term for reviewing moves after a match, borrowed here mockingly — to discuss his impressions afterward. It also emerged that he paid out of pocket for an extra 2-hour, ¥80,000 session. On 5ch, the thread filled up with disbelief and mockery at the professor’s personal “creepiness,” questions about why the cosmetics industry would entertain a university professor in the first place, and tangents about the realities of Japan’s sex industry.

Briber Spills the Beans: Ex-Todai Professor’s “Nauseatingly Detailed Post-Session Debrief” and Obsession With Pre-Session Showers in Soapland Bribery Case — Even Paid Out of Pocket for a “2-Hour, ¥80,000” Encore

Thu, Oct 1, 11:21 AM JST

Daily Shincho

Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here

96AnonymousOct 1, 2026 18:16

Yeah, the bubble-era generation really are idiots (slang for Japanese born in the late '60s/early '70s who came of age during the late-1980s economic bubble)

110AnonymousOct 1, 2026 18:20

Re: #96
That's me last month, lmao🤣

*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (News Express+) thread “[Soapland Bribery] What the Former Todai Professor Said About the ‘Nauseatingly Detailed Post-Session Debrief’ and Obsession With Pre-Session Showers — Even Paid Out of Pocket for a ‘2-Hour, ¥80,000’ Encore.”