The plane, flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv, suffered an extremely rapid descent over Saudi Arabia, just over two hours after taking off from Dubai.
This is confirmed by Flightradar24 flight tracking data.
Shortly before 05:21, the plane was flying at a recorded altitude of 10,400 meters.
In less than two minutes, he had descended more than 5,200 meters.
About 10 minutes later, an emergency signal was issued by the aircraft and available data shows significant and continuous altitude fluctuations during the remainder of the flight to Tabuk airport in Saudi Arabia.
Local Israeli media reported that one of the pilots, who was from Oman, attempted to shoot down the plane.
