I can’t imagine what was going on in this cockpit, retired naval aviator says

>> Will: LIVE FROM TEXAS. THIS IS THE WILL CAIN SHOW. WE BEGIN WITH A FOX NEWS ALERT. ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING SCENE ON. BOARD A FLIGHT TO FLIGHT HEADED. FOR TEL AVIV WHEN A COPILOT. STABBED THE CAPTAIN SENDING THE. PLANE FALLING THOUSANDS OF FEET. AND LEAVING PASSENGERS TO FEAR. FOR THEIR LIVES. [SPEAKING HEBREW].

[SCREAMING]. >> WHAT'S HAPPENED? >> Will: THE CHAOS. FOLLOWING A VIOLENT. CONFRONTATION INSIDE THE. COCKPIT, DURING WHICH PASSENGERS. SAY ONE STABBED THE OTHER, ISRAELI OFFICIALS SAY THAT SAME. COPILOT THEN.

TO TRY TO CRASH THE PLANE. THE FLIGHT WAS ORIGINALLY. INTENDED FOR TEL AVIV BEFORE IT. WAS FORCED TO LAND IN SAUDI. ARABIA. FLIGHT TRACKING DATA SHOWS THE. PLANE DROPPING MORE THAN. 14,000 FEET IN UNDER 30 SECONDS. >> SUDDENLY, THE AIRCRAFT. DROPPED MASSIVE TURBULENCE. IT WAS FRANTIC. THERE WAS -- APPARENTLY ONE.

PILOT STABBED THE OTHER. >> Will: IT WAS AT THAT POINT, THE PLANE SENT OUT A HIJACKING. ALERT, PROMPTING I ISRAEL TO. SCRAMBLE FIGHTER JETS. >> YOU REALLY FELT LIKE THE G. FORCE, LIKE AN EXTREME ROLLER. COASTER IN AN AMUSEMENT PARK. IF I WANT TO THINK OF THIS. EXAMPLE. AND ALL OF THE -- IN THE. AIRPLANE WAS SHUT OFF. IMMEDIATELY. AND GUYS JUST JUMPED, JUMPED TO.

HELP, THREE OR FOUR OF THEM. ACTUALLY ENTERED INTO THE PILOTS. ROOM AND SUCCEEDED TO -- AFTER A. COUPLE OF MINUTES SUCCEEDED TO. CONTROL THE SITUATION. ONE OF THOSE PASSENGERS LATER. EMERGED COVERED IN BLOOD. SAYING HE HELPED SUBDUE THE. PILOT. NEEDLESS TO SAY, IT WAS A RELIEF. WHEN THE PLANE FINALLY TOUCHED. DOWN. >> THERE WAS A CRAZY MAN WITH A. KNIFE WHO STABBED ONE OF THE.

PILOTS WE JUMPED AND HELPED THE. PILOT AND EVERYTHING'S OKAY. FRIENDS, EVERYTHING IS OKAY NOW. AS YOU CAN SEE, WE'RE LANDING IN. SAUDI ARABIA. YOU CAN SEE I'M FINE. >> Will: AND AS YOU CAN. IMAGINE, QUITE A RELIEF WHEN THE. PASSENGERS FINALLY REACHED THEIR. DESTINATION IN ISRAEL. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE].

ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU. ORDERING OFFICIALS TO PREPARE. FOR POSSIBLE FURTHER THREATS. AS ISRAEL'S DEFENSE MINISTER. CALLS THIS AN ATTEMPTED JIHADIST. TERROR ATTACK. NETANYAHU ALSO SPOKE WITH ONE OF. THE PASSENGERS WHO HELPED STOP. THE ATTACK. >> I SPOKE WITH ONE OF THE. ISRAELI PASSENGERS. HE TOLD ME THE PLANE WENT INTO A. SPIN AND BEGAN TO DIVE. HE TOLD ME THAT AGAINST ALL.

ODDS. HE MANAGED TO BREAK INTO THE. COCKPIT TOGETHER WITH ONE OF T E. CREW MEMBERS AND TOGETHER COVER. THEY SEDUCED THE PILOT WHO. CARRIED OUT THE STABBING AS HE. WAS TRYING TO STAB -- TO. SABOTAGE THE AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS. >> Will: NETANYAHU MET WITH THE. ROGUE PASSENGER WHO HELPED BREAK. INTO THE COCKPIT AND SUBDUE THE. COPILOT. ALL PASSENGERS ARE REPORTED SAFE. AS U.S. OFFICIALS SAY THE. COPILOT ACCUSED OF THE STABBING. HAS BEEN DETAINED BY SAUDI. AUTHORITIES.

WHERE HE IS NOW BEING. QUESTIONED. SO JOINING ME NOW, RETIRED NAVAL. AVIATOR GREG GLAROS, GREG, THANKSKS FOR BEING WITH US TODA. LET'S WALK INTO WHAT YOU MAKE OF. THIS ATTEMPTED HIJACKING AND THE. HEROIC ACTIONS OF SO MANY OF THE. PASSENGERS THAT REMIND US OF. FLIGHT 93 ON 9/11. >> IT SURE DOES. AND I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT THE. BEST OF HUMANITY IS ON DISPLAY. TODAY. YOU HAD A CAPTAIN, APPARENTLY IS. AN INNING BORN AND EMIRATI.

INTERNATIONAL SAVING THE LIVES. OF SO MANY BY OPENING AND. UNLOCKING THAT DOOR, AND THEN. THE ISRAELIS, AS RESILIENT AS. THEY ARE WITH ALL OF THEIR. TRAINING WORKING TOGETHER TO. SAVE THE LIVES OF EVERYONE. THIS WAS A REMARKABLE DAY, AND I. COULD JUST IMAGINE WHAT WENT ON. IN FLIGHT 93 IN THOSE SAME. HORRIFIC EFFORTS GOING ON TRYING. TO SAVE THE LIVES OF SO MANY, UNFORTUNATELY, IN THAT CASE, IT. WAS TOO LATE TO. IN THIS CASE, TODAY, THIS IS A.

WONDROUS EVENT AND THANKS BE TO. GOD FOR THOSE EFFORTS AND ALL. THE EFFORTS OF OTHERS, AND THE. LAST THING I'D SAY IS WHETHER. THIS IS A JIHADIST OR A. TERRORIST OR HOWEVER HE'S. LABELED, ISLAM IS A POLITICAL. CULT. AND DRESSED IN RELIGIOUS. LANGUAGE, AND THEY WISH. CIVILIZATION NOTHING BUT HARM, AND SO WE HAVE TO BE ALERT AND. WE HAVE TO BE ON GUARD. WE HAVE TO BE WATCHING, UNFORTUNATELY, OVER OUR. SHOULDERS, AND THIS WILL NOT. STOP UNLESS THAT NATION OF IRAN.

IS CHANGED. THAT'S ALL THERE IS TO IT. >> Will: OH, LET'S TOGETHER TAKE. A LOOK AT THE TIMELINE OF WHAT. HAPPENED ON THIS FLIGHT. IT TOOK OFF FROM DUBAI AT 3:05. AT 5:21. SO WE'RE NOW AN HOUR AND. 15 MINUTES IN TO THE FLIGHT. FLUCTUATIONS IN ALTITUDE BEGIN. AT 522 THE AIRCRAFT DROPS MORE. THAN 4000 DEEP UNDER 30 SECONDS. AT 5:31, A BROADCAST ALERT. EMERGENCY GOES OUT. AND AT 5:38 THAT BROADCAST ALERT.

SIGNIFIES UNLAWFUL INTERFERENCE. SO YOU MENTIONED THE PILOT. UNLOCKING THE DOOR, COMING BACK. THAT'S NOT IDEAL, BY THE WAY. THAT I'VE COME ACROSS YET, BECAUSE I HAD TWO QUESTIONS, ONE, HOW HARD WOULD IT BE, WOULD. IT BE FOR A PASSENGER TO. LITERALLY WALK UP TO THE FRONT. OF THE AIRPLANE IF IT WERE IN A. NOSEDIVE LIKE THAT, IF WE'RE. DROPPING 14,000 FEET IN 30. SESECONDS AND TWO HOW DO YOU GET. INTO WHAT ARE ALMOST CERTAINLY. REINFORCED COCKPITS? >> WELL, YOU KNOW, AFTER 9/11, ALL THOSE COCKPITS WERE DESIGNED.

NOW NOT TO BE ENTERED. SO THE ONLY WAY IN THAT ANY OF. US ARE AWARE OF CERTAINLY IN THE. AVIATION COMMUNITY, IS THAT IT. HAD TO BE UNLOCKED FROM THE. INSIDE. AND THAT'S THE ONLY WAY. SO THE HEROIC EFFORT, WHETHER IT. WAS A LAST DITCH EFFORT THAT A. PILOT DID UNLOCK THAT DOOR, YOUR. OTHER POINT IS WELL TAKEN. BECAUSE AN AIRCRAFT DIVING AS IT. DID AS QUICKLY AS IT DID. EXHIBITS CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF. NEGATIVE G. THAT NEGATIVE G IS WHAT YOU'D. FEELEL UNDER ROLLER COASTER OR. GOING TOO FAST OVER HILL AND. COMING DOWN RAPIDLY.

MY OWN EXPERIENCE IN A NAVY. FIGHTER FIGHTER AIRCRAFT, I. AVOIDED TWO SURFACE TO AIR. MISSILES IN MY FIRST, TOUR. I PUSHED OVER MY AIRCRAFT, NEGATIVE 3 1/2 G'S. AND IT CONSIDERABLY DAMAGED MY. AIRCRAFT, AND IT WAS DESIGNED TO. TAKE THE KIND OF PUNISHMENT THAT. I COULD NOT IMAGINE WHAT WAS. GOING ON IN THE COCKPIT OF. PEOPLE, LITERALLY FLOATING AS. THEY WERE WALKING AND TRIED TO. MAKE AND CRAWL AND CLAW THEIR. WAY TO THAT COCKPIT. A REMARKABLE EFFORT BY THOSE.

PASSENGERS. >> Will: SO GREG, LET'S TALK. ABOUT THE COPILOT FOR A MINUTE I. KNOW WE DON'T KNOW A LOT ABOUT. THE MAN WHO COMMITTED THE. STABBING, TRIED TO TAKE OVER THE. PLANE. BUT YOU DO KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT. HOW MUCH, BACKGROUND, WOULD. AIRLINES KNOW ABOUT THE MEN. THEY'RE PUTTING INTO COCKPITS. SO IT SEEMS LIKE THIS SHOULD. HAVE, OF LEFT FIELD. >> YEAH, THAT'S THE MILLION. DOLLAR QUESTION THAT'S GOING ON. YOU KNOW, A LOT OF MY PEERS LEFT. THE NAVAL SERVICE FLYING FOR THE. AIRLINES. I SPOKE TO THEM TODAY AND THEY. SAID THEY'VE FLOWN IN AND OUT OF.

DUBAI BECAUSE THEY HAVE A GREAT. DEAL OF SECURITY THAT GOES. THROUGH THERE. BUT WHEN YOU COME DOWN TO THE. PILOTS THEMSELVES, WHAT MENTAL. STATE ARE THEY IN? CERTAINLY HAD HINTS AND HISTORY. WHERE THE WAS SIGNIFICANT. DEPRESSION AND ONE PILOT WOULD. LOCK THE OTHER ONE OUT AND CAUSE. THE HORRIFIC HARM OF CRASHING. THE AIRPLANE. SO WE WILL DISCOVER, AND I HAVE. NO DOUBT THAT THE ISRAELIS THE. SAUDIS AND THE UNITED STATES. WILL COOPERATE AND UNDERSTANDING. THE INTENTION OF THIS. INDIVIDUAL, WHETHER IT WAS.

EXPLOITED OR WHETHER HE BELIEVED. IN HIS HEART THAT HE WAS DOING. SOMETHING FOR ISLAM. WHICH I THINK IS THE HEART OF. THE PROBLEM HERE. BRING HARM TO CIVILIZED NATIONS. >> Will: RIGHT. WELL, AS YOU MENTIONED, TODAY, IT'S A STORY OF TERRORISM, AND. WE'LL GET THE DETAILS ON WHAT. ALL THAT ENTAILS. BUT IT IS OBVIOUSLY TODAY A. STORY OF HEROISM, INCREDIBLE. HEROISM THAT RESULTED.