statementSaid on 2026-11-10
On 8 November, on Arkia flight IZ418 flying from Tbilisi to Tel Aviv, about an hour after takeoff, a roughly twenty-year-old Israeli Arab passenger ran toward the cabin and began hysterically banging on the crew door.
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8 ნოემბერს, Arkia-ს IZ418 რეისზე, რომელიც თბილისიდან თელ-ავივში მიფრინავდა, აფრენიდან დაახლოებით ერთი საათის შემდეგ, ოციოდე წლის ისრაელის მოქალაქე არაბი მგზავრი კაბინისკენ გაიქცა და ეკიპაჟის კარზე ისტერიკული ბრახუნი დაიწყო.
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