🔴 FlyDubai co-pilot planned suicide attack on Tel Aviv airport, inspired by 9/11, UAE prosecutor says

We and our partners do the following data processing based on your consent: store and/or access information on a device, personalised advertising and content, advertising and content measurement, audience research and services development FlyDubai co-pilot planned suicide attack on Tel Aviv airport, inspired by 9/11, prosecutor says 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 said on Friday. The flight carrying 182 people en route to Israel was able to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia after a descent so extreme that part of its rudder was torn away. People disembark from a FlyDubai carrying Israeli passengers who had earlier been aboard another FlyDubai aircraft that made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia approaches Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026. © Ariel Schalit, AP An Omani FlyDubai co-pilot had planned to seize a Dubai-Tel Aviv flight and crash it into a terminal at Israel's Ben Gurion airport on September 30 in a suicide attack before he was thwarted by his fellow pilot, the UAE attorney general said on Friday, according to the state news agency.

The co-pilot had drawn inspiration from al Qaeda's September 11, 2001 attacks on the US, and was seeking to inflict the maximum loss of life possible, public prosecutors said. Investigators found the suspect had used two previous flights to Tel Aviv to "familiarise himself with the flight route and the airport", the state news agency WAM reported. Read moreWho are the mystery pilots who successfully landed endangered FlyDubai flight 1073?

The incident caused the jet to plunge 16,000 feet in 30 seconds. The attorney general said the suspect had worked for several airlines in different countries in the past, including Oman Air and Royal Air Maroc, before joining FlyDubai in January 2026. UAE investigators say Omani Flydubai co-pilot was planning 'terrorist' attack Flydubai hero pilot tells Modi 'I could not let all those people die' 1. 1 ## Explosions heard in Saudi capital Riyadh after Houthis' deadly attacks on airports Middle East 2. 2 ## French government vows to boost teacher numbers in bid to ease school crisis As it happened France 3. 3 ## 'We're fed up': Paris students rise up in a movement that shows no sign of slowing On the ground France Includes a video 3 min 4. 4 ## French student unions demand talks with Lecornu as PM seeks to ease tensions As it happened France 5. 5 ## What France's student protesters want – and what the government is offering Explainer France Includes a video 2 min 6. 6 ## Christa Pike 'angry and confused' after surviving Tennessee execution attempt Americas © 2026 Copyright France 24 - All rights reserved.

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