WorldPublished: 9 October 2026 at 21:26

UAE: FlyDubai First Officer Planned to Crash Plane Into Tel Aviv Airport

The UAE attorney general has said the second pilot of FlyDubai flight FZ1073, who attacked the captain, planned a suicide attack at Tel Aviv airport. According to the headline, he was inspired by the 9/11 terror attacks.

The second pilot of Dubai-based airline FlyDubai's flight FZ1073, who attacked the aircraft's captain, had planned a suicide attack by crashing the plane into Tel Aviv's international airport in Israel. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) attorney general announced this on Friday, revealing the intended target of the incident.

According to the headline of the original report, the pilot was inspired by the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States.

The source states that the second pilot attacked the captain. It gives no further details about how the attack unfolded, the captain's condition, the passengers or the pilot's fate.

The statement by the UAE attorney general is an official claim about the incident's motive and plan. No further information on the investigation is available yet.

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