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 inspired by the September 11, 2001 attacks before he was thwarted by his fellow pilot, the UAE attorney general said on Friday, according to the state news agency.
Counsellor Dr Hamad Saif Al Shamsi, Attorney-General of the UAE, announced that the Public Prosecution’s investigation into the incident involving flydubai flight FZ1073, which was scheduled to travel from Dubai to Tel Aviv on 30 September 2026, revealed that the aircraft’s Omani co-pilot had begun carrying out 'a premeditated terrorist plot to seize control of the aircraft' and use it to launch a suicide attack targeting the passenger terminal at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, with the aim of causing the greatest possible loss of life.
The Attorney General explained that investigators had traced the ideological and professional background of the 29-year-old suspect. The findings indicated that signs of his drift towards extremism and terrorism first emerged in 2017, while he was studying in Australia. "During that period, he was influenced by takfiri ideology through reading extremist literature and following online content glorifying terrorist organisations and suicide attacks," the statement added.
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