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    Flydubai attack investigation widens as alleged hijacker’s training in New Zealand scrutinised

    Hamam al-Hammami spent 175 days in New Zealand until May 2019, as Australian Jewish group calls for full investigation into his time in Melbourne
  • A flydubai plane is parked in low light at Ben Gurion airport with the city of Tel Aviv in the background.

    Flydubai co-pilot originally planned attack for July, investigators believe

  • A FlyDubai airplane carrying Israeli passengers sits parked at Ben Gurion Airport at night.

    Alleged flydubai attacker left Australia without finishing engineering course, university says

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    Flydubai co-pilot’s time in Australia being investigated by security agencies after alleged cockpit attack

  • Pilot Smit Machchhar smiles in uniform inside the flydubai aircraft cockpit

    Flydubai co-pilot used crash axe to attack captain, says UAE

  • Yaniv Hayoun with blood stains on his shirt walks through a crowd of people at Ben Gurion airport

    Suicide by plane or terrorism? Speculation over motive in flight 1073 attack

    Experts sceptical flydubai co-pilot’s only motivation was to end his own life and say key question is means of radicalisation
  • The Indian pilot stabbed by his co-pilot on a flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv replayed the dramatic attack and his desperate effort to open the cockpit door to seek help, in a video call with Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on Friday

    Flydubai pilot tells Indian prime minister Modi that he couldn't 'let anyone die' – video

    The Indian pilot stabbed by his co-pilot on a flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv replayed the dramatic attack and his desperate effort to open the cockpit door to seek help, in a video call with Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on Friday
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  • Smit Machchhar and Narendra Modi composite

    ‘I was fighting for my life’: Indian pilot hailed as hero recalls flydubai cockpit attack

    Smit Machchhar says in video call with Indian PM that he realised if he did not get up ‘passengers would lose their lives’
  • An Israel-bound flydubai flight from Dubai made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday after one of the co-pilots allegedly stabbed his captain in an apparent attempt to crash the plane

    How the stabbing incident unfolded on Israel-bound flydubai plane | Deconstructed

    An Israel-bound flydubai flight from Dubai made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday after one of the co-pilots allegedly stabbed his captain in an apparent attempt to crash the plane
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  • Israel flags flying as passengers walk past bank of photographers.

    Co-pilot in flight stabbing had ‘Islamic radical indoctrination’, says Netanyahu

    Alleged flydubai attacker interrogated by Saudi security services as investigation into apparent crash attempt opens
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    Australian couple on plane diverted after flydubai co-pilot’s alleged attack on pilot

    Two people from Sydney were on board flight to Tel Aviv that was dramatically diverted to Saudi Arabia after one pilot allegedly stabbed the other
  • A smiling Machchhar in the cockpit of a plane

    ‘Hero’ pilot, plumber and dentist among those who saved flydubai flight to Israel

  • Passengers descend steps from the flydubai plane onto a runway, with military personnel nearby

    Co-pilot who stabbed pilot on Israel-bound plane may have tried to crash it, says Netanyahu

  • Passenger jet travelling from Dubai to Israel forced to make emergency landing after incident that raised fears of an attempted hijacking. Lucy Hough speaks to Middle East correspondent Will Christou

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    Mid-air panic as pilot attacked on Israel-bound flight - The Latest

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  • A man raises his arms in greeting or triumph in front of fellow passengers emerging through an airport doorway

    ‘Whoever is hearing me, we need help’: how flight 1073 survived its 17,000ft plunge

  • Netanyahu says pilot arrested after stabbing fellow pilot and apparently trying to crash Israel-bound plane – as it happened

  • What we know so far about alleged stabbing of pilot by co-pilot on flight to Israel

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