Flight carrying 80 Israelis lands in Saudi Arabia due to medical emergency

The Israeli was transferred to a local hospital for medical treatment, according to N12.

A FlyDubai flight carrying about 80 Israelis had to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday due to one of the passengers suffering from a stroke, according to local media.

The flight was initially scheduled to land at Ben-Gurion Airport at 5:45 p.m. after departing from Dubai International Airport in the UAE at 4:17 p.m. Instead, it landed in Riyadh at 5:45 p.m.

The plane received exceptional permission to land in Riyadh to treat the passenger. The Israeli was transferred to a local hospital for medical treatment, according to N12. The passengers spent about an hour on Saudi soil and then took off again for Israel, the report said.

Similar incidents

A similar incident happened just over two years ago when an Air Seychelles flight carrying 128 Israelis made an emergency landing in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, due to a technical issue.