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Pilots routinely travel as passengers in the cabin while being 'repositioned' for their next route ahead of their impending work assignment, in a practice called 'deadheading'.
"If Yaniv Hayun had pulled the controls hard upward while in the dive, he would have crashed the plane. The plane would have broken apart in the air," Ben Caspit explained.
During interrogation by UAE authorities, al-Hammami confessed that he intended to crash the aircraft into Ben Gurion Airport or a Tel Aviv skyscraper before Israeli fighter jets could intercept it