9/30: The Takeout with Major Garrett

Pilot allegedly stabbed on flight bound for Israel; Trump announces $54 billion South Korean investment in Alaska natural gas project. And, Dov, Let's get to some very basics. Flight took off from Dubai, heading for Tel Aviv. How many people on board? Do we know? I think it was around– yeah, around 170 people on board. Got it. And what is the stage of the investigation now. Yeah. Right. OK, so Israeli officials that I spoke to, they think that this was a type of terrorist attack because of the way that the pilot acted aboard, stabbing his co-pilot, and then what seemed like he was trying to crash the plane intentionally in order to kill everyone aboard.
But right now, the attacker, he's with the Saudis, and they're the ones who are interrogating him. So they have more information than the Israelis do right now. But it's the way that that attacker acted that makes the Israeli thinks that this was an intentional attack meant to kill the people on board. We'll only know more when we hear from the Saudi authorities. Very good. Dov Lieber in Tel Aviv, I appreciate it very, very much. Thank you. I want to turn now to Randy Klatt. He is the flight safety officer for the Foundation for Aviation Safety. Randy, I'm
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