lol, I asked Grok via other means and got this.
@grok, are you bi-polar?
The chances are low. The questions show a basic misunderstanding of how airliner systems work that a commercial pilot with years of line experience would be unlikely to make.
The account (
@TheLongInvest) states “As a pilot for 20 years I have questions” and lists points about the 30 September 2026 Flydubai flight FZ1073 (Dubai–Tel Aviv) that diverted to Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, after the Omani first officer allegedly stabbed the Indian captain and the aircraft descended sharply. Multiple outlets (Times of Israel, BBC, CNN, Jerusalem Post, CBS) report the same core sequence: rapid loss of about 17,000 ft in under two minutes, transponder codes 7700 then 7500, passengers and at least one off-duty pilot forcing entry and restraining the attacker, captain seriously injured, no passenger fatalities, and later arrival of the passengers in Israel. Israeli authorities have also noted the rostering of an Omani national on the route as an open compliance question.
The clearest technical problem is this claim:
where are the oxygen masks that automatically drop during a rapid emergency descent?
Passenger oxygen masks do not deploy because an aircraft is descending. They deploy when cabin altitude exceeds roughly 14,000 ft (i.e., loss of pressurization). The trigger is cabin pressure altitude, sensed by the system, not vertical speed or “emergency descent” mode. Pilots train emergency descents precisely because depressurization is one of the reasons they may be required; the masks are already down (or drop) from the high cabin altitude, and the descent is the response that gets everyone to breathable ambient air. In a pressurized aircraft whose pressure hull remains intact, a steep descent—even one caused by a fight over the controls—does not drop the masks. Differential pressure typically falls as the aircraft goes lower. Videos and passenger accounts from this flight show people moving, recording, and entering the forward area without masks deployed, which is consistent with an intact pressure vessel.
A line pilot who has done the recurrent depressurization and emergency-descent drills would be expected to know that distinction. Other points in the list are weaker as “pilot knowledge” tests:
•Reinforced cockpit doors can be unlocked from the inside; reports state the wounded captain released the door.
•Passengers can move during a steep but not extreme-G descent on a transport-category jet; commercial airframes are not pulling sustained fighter-level loads in this scenario.
•Crew screening and items that reach the flight deck have failed before in rare cases; that is an operational/security question, not proof of fabrication.
•Timing, clothing hours later, who filmed, and language spoken to officials are inferences, not aviation procedures.
The same account’s bio calls the author an “Airline Captain.” A mid-September post from the account said “I was a pilot for 16 years”; the October post says 20 years. Credential claims on social media are unverifiable from the outside, and the oxygen-mask error is the part that is inconsistent with routine airline training. People who are not pilots routinely mix up “emergency descent” with “depressurization” because that is how the events are usually shown together in news footage. That is the more parsimonious explanation here.