# FlyDubai co-pilot planned to crash aircraft into Tel Aviv airport

https://mins.news/en/item/86777

- euronews, 2026-10-05 16:55 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/05/flydubai-co-pilot-planned-to-crash-aircraft-into-tel-aviv-airport

> Multiple sources close to the investigation say the FlyDubai co-pilot behind the hijacking attempt wanted to crash the aircraft into Ben Gurion Airport and had previously flown the sensitive Israel route. The narrowly averted tragedy has raised increasingly difficult questions about what happened.

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