flydubai co-pilot Hamam al-Hammani planned to secretly kill Captain Smit Machchhar, shut down the aircraft’s engines and crash the plane into a building in Tel Aviv or onto a plane at Ben Gurion Airport, investigators said.

The Omani co-pilot who axed the captain of a FlyDubai passenger jet reportedly intended to take control of the aircraft and crash it into a building in Tel Aviv.

Co-pilot suspected lone-wolf attack on flydubai flight; reports name Hamam al-Hammami amid ongoing international investigations.

Machchhar initially believed that a broken component of the aircraft had hit him. He soon realised that he was being deliberately attacked.

He is being investigated after he allegedly attacked Indian pilot Smit Machchhar with a crash axe and tried to take control of the aircraft.