The captain who survived Wednesday’s attempted hijacking of a Flydubai flight revealed Saturday how his co-pilot attacked him with a cockpit axe after asking for time to pray, as investigators uncovered disturbing extremist material and serious security screening failures.
Captain Smit Machchhar told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that co-pilot Hamam al-Hammami, a 29-year-old Omani national, struck him repeatedly from behind aboard Flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv.
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