New Zealand-trained co-pilot in Dubai flight attack may have targeted Israel's Ben Gurion Airport

New Zealand police confirmed that the co-pilot who stabbed the captain on a Dubai-bound flight last week had completed part of his flight training in the country seven years ago. Reports also indicate he may have targeted Israel's Ben Gurion Airport. The suspect, identified by two sources as Omani national Hamam al-Hammami, held a six-month student visa in New Zealand from November 2018 to May 2019, training with a British company no longer operating there. The UAE's attorney general has classified the September 30 attack on flydubai Flight FZ1073 as a terrorist act. Israeli officials have not publicly named the co-pilot but confirmed his Omani origin. Authorities are still investigating his intentions, with CNN reporting that Ben Gurion Airport was a likely target, though the motive for attacking the Indian captain over Saudi airspace remains unclear.