The plan of the co-pilot who tried to crash the Flydubai plane was revealed

It was claimed that the Omani co-pilot, who reportedly tried to crash the plane by injuring the captain pilot on the Flydubai plane flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv last week, planned the action before he got a job at the airline company.

Two Israeli officials with knowledge of the investigation told the Reuters agency that the suspect, who was detained in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), said during his interrogation that he decided to apply for a job at Dubai state-owned Flydubai after researching the companies operating flights to Tel Aviv.

A third source informed about the investigation in the UAE noted that the Omani co-pilot aimed to crash flight FZ1073 into Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on Wednesday.

The same source stated that the suspect took part in a flight to Tel Aviv earlier this year, and that time he planned to hijack and crash the plane, but gave up the action because a passenger he knew was on the plane.

The suspect's identity was stated by two sources as Hamam al-Hammami. Israeli officials have confirmed that the suspect is Omani, but have not yet announced an official name.

UAE authorities and Flydubai have not yet shared the identity of the suspect with the public.

The UAE Attorney General's Office described the action of the co-pilot, who attacked the captain pilot with the emergency ax in the cockpit, as a "terrorist attack".

A fight broke out in Jordanian airspace on the plane taking off from Dubai and carrying more than 170 passengers and crew, most of whom were Israelis.

It was reported that the plane first transmitted the code 7700, which is the general emergency code, and then the code 7500, which means hijacking.

Captain pilot Smit Machchhar, an Indian citizen who was seriously injured in the attack, managed to open the cockpit door and allowed the cabin crew and passengers to intervene.

After the suspect was neutralized by the passengers and crew, a reserve Flydubai pilot who was traveling as a passenger on the plane took over the management of the plane. The plane made an emergency landing at a regional airport in northwestern Saudi Arabia.

The suspect, who was detained by Saudi authorities, was handed over to the UAE authorities on Thursday after his treatment. It is not yet known whether al-Hammami, who is being held in the UAE, has been formally charged or has retained a lawyer.

The Oman administration did not make any statement about the incident.

It was noted that in the international leg of the investigation, the Australian counter-terrorism unit examined the suspect's possible connections with the country.

A fourth source said al-Hammami studied at RMIT University in Melbourne about a decade ago.