Omani Hijacker Planned to Crash into Ben Gurion Airport Terminal
Translated & summarized from Kikar HaShabbat by baba
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- Hijacker targeted Ben Gurion Airport terminal, not Tel Aviv.
- He confessed to joining Flydubai specifically to fly to Israel.
- The plan involved crashing the plane during a simulated landing.
- The hijacker faces the death penalty in the UAE.
An Omani co-pilot for Flydubai, who recently hijacked a plane, intended to crash into Ben Gurion Airport's terminal, not Tel Aviv as previously reported, according to a report by Amit Segal. The hijacker confessed during his investigation that his target was Ben Gurion Airport, explaining that this was why he attacked the captain while the plane was over Jordan, shortly before entering Israeli airspace.
His plan, as detailed in the report, was to prepare for a normal landing at Ben Gurion Airport and then execute a dramatic crash into the terminal when interception would no longer be possible. Reporter Moriah Asraf also revealed that the hijacker admitted he specifically joined Flydubai because the airline flies to Israel, and this had been his objective from the outset.
"I searched and checked which company flies to Tel Aviv, and that's why I chose Flydubai. I tried to get accepted to all the companies. I planned the operation even before I was accepted into the company," the hijacker stated during his interrogation. The hijacker is expected to face the death penalty in the United Arab Emirates.
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