Flydubai co-pilot planned suicide attack on Israeli airport, UAE prosecutors say

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UAE prosecutors say Flydubai co-pilot Hammam al-Hammami attempted to seize control of a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv as part of a planned suicide attack on Ben Gurion Airport. He allegedly attacked the pilot with an emergency axe, but passengers subdued him after the injured pilot opened the cockpit door.

Hammam al-Hammami is believed to have been targeting the passenger terminal at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv The co-pilot who tried to seize control of a passenger jet flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv last week was planning to launch a suicide attack targeting the passenger terminal at Israel’s international airport, prosecutors in the United Arab Emirates said on Friday. Hammam al-Hammami attacked the plane’s Indian pilot with an emergency axe, but failed to prevent his badly injured colleague from opening the cockpit’s security door to allow passengers to overpower his assailant. Continue reading...