FlyDubai co-pilot attacked pilot with crash axe after asking to pray; passengers stormed cockpit, off-duty pilots landed plane safely

FlyDubai Capt. Smit Machchhar says his co-pilot asked to pray, then hit him from behind with a cockpit crash axe. As the plane began to drop, passengers stormed the cockpit and helped pull the attacker off the controls; off-duty pilots landed the aircraft safely. A senior Emirati official says the co-pilot allegedly planned to crash the plane into Tel Aviv's Azrieli Towers, 9/11-style; the UAE designates the attack as terrorism.

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