Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said one pilot stabbed another and may have attempted to crash the flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv. The plane landed in Saudi Arabia and all passengers were safe.

A "major disaster was narrowly avoided," the official said.

The jet was on a flight from Barcelona to Boston with 296 passengers when it was diverted, media reports said.

A Coast Guard plane carrying Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and more than a dozen other people made an emergency landing Wednesday following an engine failure. The Gulfstream jet landed at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in the Virginia suburbs of Washington.

A Delta Air Lines flight from Spain to the U.S. made ​an emergency landing in Portugal after "fumes were detected in the cabin" and a mechanical issue was reported, the airline said. Flight DL251 from Barcelona to Boston was diverted to Porto on Sunday,

A pilot escaped with minor injuries after a small plane lost engine power and made an emergency landing in a field near Spring Creek on Thursday morning.Deputies responded to the area of State Routes 228 and 227 around 9:58 a.

The report provided new information about the crash-landing that occurred off New Smyrna Beach on Aug. 27.