ദുബായിൽ നിന്ന് ടെൽ അവീവിലേക്ക് പറന്ന ഫ്ലൈ ദുബായ് വിമാനത്തിൽ കോ-പൈലറ്റ് ക്യാപ്റ്റനെ കോടാലി കൊണ്ട് ആക്രമിച്ചു. ഇത് ഭീകരാക്രമണമാണെന്ന് യുഎഇ പ്രോസിക്യൂട്ടർ ജനറൽ സ്ഥിരീകരിച്ചു. ആക്രമണത്തെത്തുടർന്ന് വിമാനം പെട്ടെന്ന് താഴേക്ക് പതിച്ചെങ്കിലും യാത്രക്കാരും ജീവനക്കാരും ചേർന്ന് അക്രമിയെ കീഴ്പ്പെടുത്തിയതിനാൽ വൻ ദുരന്തം ഒഴിവായി. സംഭവത്തിൽ അന്വേഷണം പുരോഗമിക്കുകയാണ്.
The flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv plunged approximately 13,000 feet in 30 seconds after the pilot lost control of the aircraft
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The UAE’s prosecutor general has said that a co-pilot who attacked a flight captain on board a FlyDubai plane to Tel Aviv, intended to carry out a “terror attack”, according to comments on the country’s state news agency WAM.
He said that the man, who was identified on Saturday as Omani national Hamam al-Hammami, used a crash axe to stab the captain.
Investigations are ongoing to determine the circumstances of the incident, the motives and any related connections, as well as to examine physical and digital evidence, he added.
Hammami was born in the United Arab Emirates to an Omani father and Syrian mother, CNN quoted sources and Israeli officials familiar with the matter as saying. The co-pilot has spent several years of his life in the UAE, according to the report.
He was banned from flying last year over concerns that he had radical ideological views, according to Saudi state media.
It comes as Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that Israel was looking into whether the co-pilot had acted under anyone's direction, warning in a video statement released by his office that whoever was involved would pay a "heavy price".
FlyDubai has said that the incident is still under investigation.
Israeli officials expected to question co-pilot of FlyDubai flight
Israeli officials are expected to question the co-pilot who allegedly attempted to crash a commercial passenger flight from Dubai bound for Tel Aviv, according to a source briefed on the investigation.
Disaster was averted on FlyDubai flight FZ1073 on Wednesday after passengers and crew subdued the co-pilot, who had stabbed the captain in what Israeli officials have said was an apparent attempt to crash the plane carrying over 170 passengers and crew.
The co-pilot was transferred on Thursday to the UAE, where the source said Israeli officials were expected to question him.
The source declined to say which Israeli agency or authority would take part in the questioning.
Asked whether Israeli officials would question the co-pilot, an Israeli government official told Reuters that Israeli investigators would take part in the UAE-led investigation alongside Emirati authorities, seeking to determine what happened and examine the suspect's motives and background.
Rituparna Chatterjee3 October 2026 09:30
Israel plane attacker was banned from flying by Oman over suspected radicalisation - report
The FlyDubai co-pilot who stabbed his captain had previously been banned from flying over concerns he had radical ideological views, it has been reported.
Though the pilot- an Omani national - was banned by his country, he was still hired by FlyDubai, according to the Wall Street Journal.
However, the nature of his radicalisation has not been shared.
CNN reported that the pilot had been removed from a previous job at Oman’s national airline last year following concerns about his extremist views.
Israel plane attacker was banned from flying by Oman - report
The Omani co-pilot was arrested in Saudi Arabia where he is being interrogated
Maira Butt3 October 2026 09:00
Iran denies involvement in RAF Fairford air base security incidents
The leaders of Britain and the United States have suggested, without giving evidence, that Iran played a role in two major security incidents this week, the arrests near a US-run military base in England used in the war against Tehran and the attack in the cockpit of an Israel-bound plane.
As of Friday, no confirmed connection to the Islamic Republic had emerged.
Britain has not made public any evidence linking Iran to the air-base arrests on terrorism-related charges.
And an official who was not authorized to speak to the media said there is currently no evidence of a link between Iran and the cockpit attack.
The investigations are in the early stages.
If an Iranian link to the Britain arrests is confirmed, it would underline a strategy that Iran’s government has promoted for decades, using smaller, relatively low-cost attacks to needle and disrupt more powerful adversaries and their economies while causing friction among allies.
Iran has denied involvement in Sunday’s arrests close to the RAF Fairford air base, which has been used by US bombers to strike Iran.
Iranian leaders summoned Britain's ambassador and called on the British government to provide an official explanation.
Police on Thursday arrested a 25-year-old dual UK-Iranian citizen on suspicion of plotting a terror attack, while five other suspects were released on bail.
Detectives said they found a quantity of an accelerant – gasoline – in vans near the air base, but no explosives.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said the UK sees “strong indications” that Iran played a part in the incident but did not provide details.
Rituparna Chatterjee3 October 2026 08:30
Flydubai co-pilot attacked pilot with axe in attempted 'terrorist' attack, UAE says
An Omani co-pilot on FlyDubai flight FZ1073 attempted to carry out a “terrorist” attack during the flight, the United Arab Emirates prosecutor general said on Saturday, according to the state news agency WAM.
The co-pilot attacked the pilot inside the cockpit with an axe and attempted to take control of the aircraft, the prosecutor general said.
Investigations are ongoing to determine the circumstances of the incident, the motives and any related connections, as well as to examine physical and digital evidence, he added.
Maira Butt3 October 2026 08:00
Boston native recalls moment plane started to plummet
Boston native Mika Bauman tells NBC News an 11-year-old girl who was sitting next to her grabbed her hand as the FlyDubai plane started to plummet.
“We just held hands, me and her, and her father next to her, and we all screamed,” she said.
"We didn't let go until Saudi Arabia."
Bauman is a dual US-Israeli citizen who was flying home to Tel Aviv.
Rituparna Chatterjee3 October 2026 07:30
Co-pilot in FlyDubai attack identified
The co-pilot on the FlyDubai flight accused of attacking the plane’s captain was an Omani national named Hamam al-Hammami, according to reports.
Rituparna Chatterjee3 October 2026 07:09
'I realized that if I didn’t get up passengers would lose their lives'
The airline captain who helped thwart an apparent attempt to crash a FlyDubai flight told how he fought for his life in the minutes after his co-pilot stabbed him and the plane began a potentially deadly descent.
Capt. Smit Machchhar, from India, is now recovering in an Abu Dhabi hospital.
He told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a video call broadcast live on television news channels that he knew he had to get back on his feet to save the passengers aboard the aircraft.
“I had so many wounds. I had fallen down,” he said from the hospital, his head bandaged and tubes in his nose, before breaking down as he recalled the attack.
Rituparna Chatterjee3 October 2026 06:30
Flydubai pilot reveals desperate attempts to unlock cockpit door
The Indian airline captain who was stabbed while foiling an alleged attempt by his co-pilot to crash a Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv has recalled the moment he managed to open the cockpit door, allowing passengers to enter and restrain the attacker.
In a video call to the Indian prime minister while recovering in an Abu Dhabi hospital, Capt. Smit Machchhar said he knew he had to get back up to save the passengers aboard the aircraft.
"When I was on the ground, I realised that the aircraft is going down. And I told myself, 'This is the last push, Smit. The door is right there.' I was still getting hit, but I opened the door,” Mr Machchhar said.
Watch the video here.
Rituparna Chatterjee3 October 2026 05:30
'It was like the craziest roller coaster': Passenger recalls FlyDubai plane's sudden descent
Passenger Adam Polo, who was on the FlyDubai plane with his family told CNN the sudden descent felt “like a normal air pocket”.
But soon “the electricity, all of the multimedia system and the air conditioning in the airplane stopped working”, he said.
“People that were standing in the aisle or just going to the toilet, they fell, anyone that wasn’t sitting fell. So it was like the craziest roller coaster that you ever did, but multiplied by a thousand,” he told the news outlet.
Rituparna Chatterjee3 October 2026 05:00
What happened on the hijacked Israel flight and who was behind it?
The Flydubai flight FZ1073 incident has heightened security fears in Israel weeks before Israelis vote in the first election since the Hamas-led October 7 attack, with security a defining issue.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday named the pilot who was attacked as Captain Smit Machchhar, and praised him as a "true hero" for fighting back against the attacker and opening the cockpit door.
Flight FZ1073 took off from Dubai International Airport shortly after 3am UTC on Wednesday morning and was heading for Israel when it signalled an emergency code two hours into its journey, according to tracking website FlightRadar24.