UAE investigators said that the co-pilot planned attacked Machchhar with an axe. Airlines are generally required to keep crash axes in cockpits for emergencies.

Hammami, has been identified as the flydubai co-pilot who attacked Indian Captain Smit Machchhar and allegedly attempted to take control of a Dubai-Tel Aviv flight this week, according to media ...

A horrific mid-air catastrophe on a plane heading to Tel Aviv was averted in a stunning turn of events on Wednesday when passengers and crew bravely rushed into ...

Indian pilot Captain Smit Machchhar has recalled how he survived a cockpit attack by his Omani co-pilot on a Flydubai flight.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on the phone on Saturday with the recovering Indian pilot who was attacked ...

Lital Hirschl-Shahar was sat between her four young daughters (pictured) on Wednesday's Flydubai flight FZ1073 as it ...

In a recorded call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Captain Smit Machchhar described taking blows “one after ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has invited the Indian captain of a flydubai flight that was heading to Tel Aviv to ...

Flydubai's co-pilot, who has been identified as Hamam al-Hammami, used an 'emergency crash axe' on Indian Captain Smit ...

An Indian airline captain is being hailed as a hero after thwarting an apparent attempt to crash a FlyDubai flight. Capt.

Eran Peleg, 75, dies in crash near Kafr Qara after aircraft takes off from Megiddo; injured pilot hospitalized as ...