UAE had shared FlyDubai flight details with Israel, including info on pilots, officials say
Investigators say the co-pilot researched Tel Aviv routes before the flight and planned to crash the jet, which carried 172 people, officials said.
- On Sunday, officials confirmed the United Arab Emirates shared the passenger list for FlyDubai flight FZ1073 with Israel before departure, including crew nationalities as part of standard procedure.
- Hamam al-Hammami, the suspected pilot, had been previously barred from flying by Omani authorities due to radical ideological views, yet the UAE-based carrier FlyDubai hired him despite these concerns.
- During the Wednesday flight with 182 people on board, the co-pilot attacked the captain with a crash ax in what the United Arab Emirates called a "terrorist attack," nearly crashing the aircraft before passengers intervened.
- The Shin Bet and Transportation Ministry traded accusations over vetting responsibilities, while sources told ABC News on Saturday that Hammami is "cooperating" with the investigation following his detention in Saudi Arabia.
- Philip Baum, an aviation security expert at Coventry University, noted that cross-border background checks face significant limitations, leaving questions about how FlyDubai failed to identify the Omani pilot as a security risk.
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The man (29), who holds Omani nationality, was reportedly inspired by the attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States. According to the statement, his goal was to cause the "largest possible number" of casualties.
Inspired by 9/11, the co-pilot who attacked the pilot of a Flydubai flight was looking to crash the plane at Tel Aviv airport.
The co-pilot of a FlyDubai plane who attacked the captain last week planned to crash the plane at Tel Aviv International Airport, the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) chief prosecutor said on Friday.
The Flydubai plane, whose crash could be thwarted, was apparently to crash into a terminal at Tel Aviv airport, as the investigation revealed.
(Istanbul=Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Dong-ho = The co-pilot who attacked the captain with a weapon on a Flydubai passenger plane bound for Israel attempted to crash the aircraft into an Israeli international airport...
Flydubai co-pilot planned suicide attack on Tel Aviv airport, inspired by 9/11
The Omani co-pilot who attacked the captain of Flydubai flight 1073 had planned to crash the plane into Tel Aviv's international airport in a suicide attack, the United Arab Emirates' top prosecutor…
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