FlyDubai co-pilot planned suicide attack on Tel Aviv airport, inspired by 9/11, UAE prosecutor says
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A FlyDubai Omani co-pilot had planned to seize Dubai–Tel Aviv flight 1073 and crash it into a terminal at Israel's Ben Gurion airport on September 30 in a suicide attack, the UAE attorney general said on Friday. The captain thwarted him; the jet plunged 16,000 feet in 30 seconds before making an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia with 182 people aboard. Prosecutors said the suspect, inspired by al Qaeda's 9/11 attacks, had flown the Tel Aviv route twice before to familiarise himself with it; he joined FlyDubai in January 2026 after working for Oman Air and Royal Air Maroc.
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