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A passenger aboard a flydubai flight said he feared the two mystery pilots who took control after Captain Smit Machchhar was attacked by his co-pilot inside the cockpit could hijack the jet to Iran. The pilots eventually stabilised the aircraft and landed safely in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.
Hamam al-Hammami, the flydubai co-pilot accused of trying to crash a passenger jet bound for Tel Aviv, told investigators after the plane landed in Saudi Arabia that he wanted to deliberately bring it down and was 'not afraid of death', according to a Wall Street Journal report.