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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
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Both outlets centre the UAE attorney general’s allegation that a Flydubai co-pilot planned to crash a plane into Ben Gurion airport. The South China Morning Post is more specific, adding that the co-pilot was Omani, that the flight was Dubai-Tel Aviv, and that the alleged plan was a suicide attack on September 30, while Sky News leaves those details out.
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