Flydubai co-pilot planned to crash the plane into Tel Aviv airport or a building

According to US and Israeli reports, the co-pilot accused of attempting to hijack a flydubai plane planned to crash the plane into Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport or a high-rise building in the city.

According to reports, the connection of this accused, a resident of Oman, with any organization has not been proved yet, and he intended to carry out this work alone.

The UAE Attorney General has said that the co-pilot attempted to carry out a "terrorist attack" on Flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv last Wednesday.

He attacked the captain with the emergency crash ax kept in the cockpit and injured him. After this, after the pilot somehow opened the cockpit door, the passengers overpowered the attacking co-pilot. The other crew member present in the plane landed the plane in Saudi Arabia.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that the co-pilot was "brainwashed into Islamist fundamentalist ideas". He said the captain, passengers and other crew members prevented "a major 9/11 disaster."

More information has come to light about the co-pilot of Flydubai flight. In many reports his name has been mentioned as Hamam al-Hamami. His interrogation is continuing in the UAE and Israeli authorities are being informed about the investigation.

Israeli media quoted sources related to the investigation as saying that after attacking Captain Smit Mosquito, the co-pilot's plan was to pretend that everything was normal and thus take the plane into Israel's airspace.

According to reports, the co-pilot's plan was to obtain permission to land the plane from Ben Gurion Airport and then carry out his plans.

According to reports, he was then planning to crash the Boeing 737 Max plane with more than 180 passengers on board into the airport or a high-rise building in central Tel Aviv. It has been told that his plan was similar to the Al-Qaeda attacks in America on September 11, 2001.

According to sources, he was most likely to do this alone. There has been no evidence of his working for any extremist organization or foreign government.

According to reports, the co-pilot also told investigators that he had previously planned to hijack a Tel Aviv-bound flight and crash it. But later he gave up this intention because a person present in the plane was known to him.

UAE or Israeli officials did not immediately comment on this.

UAE Attorney General Hamad Al-Shamsi said on Saturday that the investigation will reveal full details of the incident, the motive and any links related to it. He said that its results will be released after the investigation is completed.

After this incident, questions are also being raised about major security lapses. These also include questions about how flydubai employed the co-pilot and how it got permission to take the plane filled with Israeli passengers to Tel Aviv.

According to regional officials, Oman's government airline Oman Air had stopped the co-pilot from flying. After concerns about extremist views, he was given a job related to administration instead of flying.

According to officials, UAE's Flydubai later gave him a job. The company's routine security checks did not reveal any signs of terrorism.

According to Israel's aviation regulations, civilian pilots from countries that do not have formal diplomatic relations with Israel cannot operate flights to Israel. Oman is also included in such countries.

UAE officials gave Israel the list of passengers and crew on board flight FZ1073 before it took off, regional officials told The Associated Press on Sunday.

Israel's domestic security agency Shin Bet said that it is the responsibility of the Transport Ministry to check such lists of foreign airlines.

But Transport Minister Miri Regev said her ministry had not been given the list of passengers and crew. He said that the security of foreign airlines' flights is the responsibility of Shin Bet and Mossad, the agency working in intelligence abroad.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked the head of the National Security Council to review "all security-related aspects" of foreign civilian flights to Israel.

Australian authorities are also investigating the co-pilot's ties to Australia. Sources have told local media that he had studied in Australia between 2015 and 2017.