Dubai Airline co-pilot kills captain with knife and plans to hit Ben-Gurion International Airport

Dubai Airline co-pilot Hammami (pictured) slashed the captain to death in an attempt to seize control of the plane. Investigators revealed that he planned to crash the passenger plane into Ben-Gurion International Airport. (Picture taken from the Internet)

On September 30th, on Dubai Air flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv, Israel, the Omani co-pilot Hamam Al Hammami stabbed and killed the Indian captain Smit. Machchhar, tried to seize control of the plane. Fortunately, it did not lead to tragedy when Machchhar struggled to open the cockpit door and the passengers bravely restrained him. Investigators revealed on October 4 that Hammami planned to crash the passenger plane into the Ben-Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv.

According to the Times of Israel, Hammami, who was under interrogation, told investigators that he planned to get rid of the captain and then fly the passenger plane normally, and after obtaining permission to land, crash into buildings or other aircraft at Ben-Gurion International Airport. He waited until the flight entered the skies over Jordan, which borders Israel, before attacking the captain, just to avoid being noticed by others in advance.

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It is understood that Hammami has traveled to Ben-Gurion International Airport through Dubai Air several times in the past few months to collect intelligence and plan terrorist attacks. He revealed that he originally planned to hijack the plane in July, but one of the crew members on the flight was his friend, so Hammami postponed the action.

In addition, Hammami noted that he had previously researched which airlines had flights to Tel Aviv, which was why he chose flydubai to join. The above content is the information obtained by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates from their interrogation and conveyed to Israel. Israel requested that the scope of interrogation be expanded to include the flight attendants on flight FZ1073.