benjamin netanyahu

"This was a person who was willing to commit suicide."

The Omani pilot allegedly begged Israeli passengers, "Kill me," after they tied him up with a headphone cable.

"Each episode features a detailed dramatized reconstruction of the incident based on cockpit voice-recorders and air-traffic-control transcripts."

Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband slapped Jerusalem with a sweep of hostile sanctions "pretty much the next day," Netanyahu said.

"I would say the answer, based on what I'm hearing, is yes."

Pilots flying into Israel must meet a little-known passport requirement.

"There is no other way to put it, we hired the services of a terrorist."

Netanyahu says Jerusalem provided intelligence to Britain before the RAF Fairford incident.

"Having never flown a plane, he took the stick, lifted it up and leveled out the plane before it crashed.”

“Despite being stabbed and seriously injured, he fought back, resisted, opened the cockpit door”

"He was trying to destroy the controls in order to disable the plane."

Netanyahu hailed the Israeli heroes who prevented a “huge disaster.”

The passengers did not simply wait for help.

Katz says the attacker intended to crash the packed Tel Aviv-bound jet, but Israeli passengers fought their way into the cockpit.