Trump says co-pilot in Flydubai incident may have been a 'terrorist' or 'whack-job’

“And it seems as though the co-pilot was perhaps a terrorist, or perhaps a whack-job, and he stabbed the pilot.”Trump then recounted the account he had received from Netanyahu involving an Israeli plumber who he said had no experience flying an aircraft but intervened after hearing a disturbance in the cockpit.’s account, the plumber realised something was wrong after hearing screaming and seeing what was happening in the flight deck.

“Having never flown a plane, he took the stick, lifted it up, and leveled out the plane before it crashed,” he said. Trump acknowledged that he could not independently confirm the details of the account.

Read:Two pilots wounded after fight on Israel-bound flight forces emergency landing“Now this is the story that I heard. I don’t know if it’s true, but that’s the story that I got from BB,” he said, referring to Netanyahu.

Trump also recounted Netanyahu’s explanation for how the plumber knew what to do in an emergency. “When asked why he did that, he said, ‘He watches that show Air Disasters,’” Trump said.

Trump described the television program as “the craziest show” and said Netanyahu it frequently and learned from the program “sort of how to fly.”The comments came after reports of a confrontation between the pilots of a passenger aircraft operating from Dubai to Tel Aviv., the incident triggered a hijacking code before the aircraft ultimately landed in Saudi Arabia.

Flydubai has said the circumstances and motives behind the altercation remain unknown and are the subject of a formal investigation.