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Flydubai co-pilot planned suicide attack on Israeli airport, UAE prosecutors say

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UAE prosecutors stated that flydubai co-pilot Hammam al-Hammami confessed to planning a suicide attack on Ben Gurion Airport's passenger terminal during a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv. The aircraft was safely landed in Saudi Arabia after passengers overpowered the co-pilot who had attacked the pilot with an axe.
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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 f

Flydubai co-pilot planned suicide attack on Israeli airport, UAE prosecutors say
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