Crossfiled8 outlets · first filed 3 days ago
Flydubai co-pilot planned suicide attack on Israeli airport, UAE prosecutors say
Hammam al-Hammami is believed to have been targeting the passenger terminal at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv The co-pilot who tried to seize control of a passenger jet flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv last week was planning to launch a suicide attack targeting the passenger terminal at Israel’s inte
What the coverage shows
Both NBC News and ABC News frame the story around a claimed plan to crash an Israel-bound Flydubai plane into Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport. NBC News alone uses the “9/11-style attack” language and attributes that wording to a Middle Eastern official, while ABC News instead says two senior U.S. officials and an Israeli source described an intent to crash the plane into the airport.
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