Since September 11th, 2001, I have concurred with the commonly held view that the tactics the perpetrators used on that day became obsolete the moment that Flight 93 hit the ground. Never again, I assumed, would passengers on a commercial flight believe that their hijackers intended to land the plane safely, and, in consequence, never again would terrorists try that particular move. What happened on Flight FZ1073 yesterday illustrates that I was at least half-wrong in this assessment.

Per the Israeli defense minister, Flight FZ1073, on its way from Dubai to Tel Aviv, was the target of an “attempted jihadist terror attack.” The details are still coming in, but it seems that one of the pilots tried to stab another of the pilots, with the intention of crashing the plane — perhaps even into something — and killing everyone on board. The BBC quotes a passenger who........

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