FlyDubai 737 MAX recovers after 92‑second high‑speed dive and lands safely in Tabuk
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- Flight 1073 of FlyDubai left Dubai at 7:03 local time with more than 170 passengers and crew aboard a four‑year‑old Boeing 737 MAX, climbed to about 34,000 feet and then entered a sudden dive.
- At 9:21 the aircraft reached a 39‑degree nose‑down attitude, descending 17,400 feet in 92 seconds and accelerating to Mach 0.96, above its normal limit of Mach 0.82; the crew pulled the nose up, cutting speed from roughly 1,110 km/h to 721.5 km/h in 43 seconds, kept control for over an hour and landed safely at Tabuk, where the damaged plane is parked for inspection.
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