As flight FZ 1073 soared(翱翔；高飞) west over the waters of the Gulf towards Israel, its passengers may have bemoaned(抱怨；哀叹) a 20-minute delay at takeoff. For a low-cost airline(廉价航空公司) route, flydubai’s daily service to Tel Aviv is usually convenient and reliable. The nonstop flight takes about three and a half hours and departs early enough from Dubai that it usually lands at Ben Gurion airport(以色列本·古里安机场) at about 9am local time.
当FZ 1073航班向西飞越海湾水域、朝以色列方向飞行时，乘客们或许还在抱怨起飞延误了20分钟。作为一条廉价航空航线，迪拜航空飞往特拉维夫的每日航班通常既方便又可靠。这趟直飞航班耗时约三个半小时，从迪拜起飞的时间足够早，通常能在当地时间上午9点左右降落在本·古里安机场。
That was not the case for Wednesday’s catastrophic(灾难性的) flight. The passenger jet never made it to its scheduled destination. Instead, it dropped thousands of feet in seconds before limping down to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia – perhaps miraculously, since photos suggested a large part of the tail of the aircraft was missing.(相反，它在几秒内骤降数千英尺，随后艰难地迫降在沙特阿拉伯——考虑到照片显示飞机尾部很大一部分已经缺失，这或许堪称奇迹。)
但周三那趟灾难性的航班并非如此。这架客机始终未能抵达原定目的地。相反，它在几秒内骤降数千英尺，随后艰难地迫降在沙特阿拉伯——考虑到照片显示飞机尾部很大一部分已经缺失，这或许堪称奇迹。
Passengers evacuated(撤离；疏散), some covered in blood, with stories to share of a pilot-on-pilot stabbing(飞行员刺伤飞行员), and footage posted online from inside the fuselage(机身) showed the aftermath(（灾难的）后果；余波) of violence.
乘客们撤离了飞机，有些人浑身是血，他们讲述着飞行员刺伤飞行员的经历，而网上发布的机舱内视频则显示了暴力过后的景象。