The first officer of a plane bound for Israel admits to an intentional crash attempt... UAE terrorism regulations

His identity was revealed as 29-year-old Alhammami... UAE investigative authorities define it as a ‘terrorist attempt’

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Lee Ji-heon = The first officer who attacked the pilot with a weapon on a FlyDubai plane bound for Israel is said to have admitted that he intended to crash the aircraft on purpose, ABC News reported on the 2nd (local time), citing multiple sources briefed on the investigation.

According to reports, the co-pilot, identified as Hamm Al Hammami, a 29-year-old Omani national, has been extradited to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and is being investigated by local authorities.

Under international aviation law, jurisdiction over crimes committed on board an aircraft is given priority to the country in which the aircraft is registered, and accordingly, Alhammami was extradited to Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE, flydubai's nationality, on the 1st.

Al-Hammami is said to have cooperated with the UAE authorities' investigation and made statements to the effect that he wanted to bring down the plane in Israel.

UAE investigative authorities have defined this incident as a terrorist attempt and are investigating the specific circumstances of the incident, motive, and whether he was an accomplice.

Citing the UAE's state-run WAM news agency, Reuters reported that UAE Prosecutor General Hamad Saif Al-Shamsi defined the incident as an attempted terrorist attack.

Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defined this incident as an act of terrorism by an Islamic radical and claimed, "He tried to crash the plane with passengers on board."

Israeli investigators are also participating in the UAE-led investigation, an Israeli government official told Reuters.

Meanwhile, it was revealed that Alhammami had a history of being banned from flying in Oman in the past due to concerns about his radical ideological tendencies.

After this disposition, he continued to work in an administrative position at Oman Air, but later transferred to the UAE airline flydubai, and how he was hired as a first officer on the highly security-sensitive UAE-Israel route is still under investigation, ABC reported.