Flydubai Terrorist Pilot Planned 9/11-Style Attack On Israel's Ben Gurion Airport
UAE investigators say he targeted the airline because it flew to Tel Aviv, and more than 170 passengers and crew helped avert the attack.
- A FlyDubai co-pilot identified as Omani national Hamam al-Hammami attacked his captain with an emergency crash axe on a flight bound for Tel Aviv, allegedly intending to crash the aircraft into Ben Gurion International Airport.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed the co-pilot underwent "radical Islamist indoctrination" and had planned the attack before joining the Dubai state-owned airline specifically to target flights to Israel.
- Indian national Smit Machchhar, the pilot, survived the cockpit attack and managed to divert the plane carrying more than 170 passengers to a regional airport in northwestern Saudi Arabia.
- Saudi authorities detained the co-pilot before transferring him to the UAE on Thursday, while New Zealand and Australian officials investigate his enrollment at RMIT University in Melbourne.
- Netanyahu ordered a security review of foreign airlines flying to Israel, noting that pilots from countries without diplomatic relations, such as Oman, are generally restricted from operating these flights.
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FlyDubai co-pilot planned attack before joining airline: Israeli officials
U.A.E. authorities and FlyDubai have not publicly disclosed the identity of the co-pilot, who stabbed his captain in a suspected attempt to crash a plane en route to Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv last week.
Hammam Al-Hammami, a native of Oman, has been detained in the Arab Emirates since the attempted attack on a plane to Tel Aviv; he reportedly attempted to commit a similar act earlier this year.
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The Omani attacker of the Flydubai flight confirms to the investigators that his main objective was to crash the plane at Israel’s main airport in Tel Aviv, where the aircraft was headed. He has also confessed that he had this plan since before he started working for the Emirati company. Meanwhile, in Israel there is an exchange of accusations between the security agencies and the Ministry of Transportation, which Shin Bet blames for ignoring hi…
The flydubai Terror Attack Tests Middle East Security and Diplomacy – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
The United Arab Emirates general prosecutor continued its investigation over the weekend into the thwarted terrorist attack on the flydubai flight last Wednesday carrying a plane full of Israelis to Tel Aviv. Emerging new details of the initial attack on the aircraft’s pilot and the passengers’ brave recovery of the plane reveal just how close the Middle East came to witnessing a 9/11-style terrorist attack. Accounts of the incident from the ong…
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