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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 AvivThe 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 international airport, prosecutors in the United Arab Emirates said on Friday.Hammam al-Hammami attacked the plane’s Indian pilot with an emergency axe, but failed to prevent his badly injured colleague from opening the cockpit’s security door to allow passengers to overpower his assailant. Continue read...
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