据调查人员称，上周在迪拜至特拉维夫航班驾驶舱内袭击机长斯米特·马奇哈尔的flydubai副机长哈马姆·阿尔-哈马尼，曾计划杀害机长，夺取飞机控制权，并将其撞向特拉维夫的一栋摩天大楼。据CBS新闻报道，以色列初步调查还发现，这名29岁的阿曼籍男子是单独实施此次袭击的。
Hammam al-Hammani, the flydubai co-pilot, who attacked Captain Smit Machchhar in the Dubai-Tel Aviv flight cockpit last week, had planned to kill him, seize control of the plane and crash it into a skyscraper in Tel Aviv, according to investigators. An initial Israeli investigation also found that the 29-year-old Omani national acted alone in the attack, CBS News reported.
意大利《晚邮报》报道称，阿尔-哈马尼计划秘密杀害机长，关闭飞机引擎，并将飞机撞向特拉维夫的一栋建筑。
Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reported that al-Hammani planned to secretly kill the captain, shut down the aircraft’s engines and crash the plane into a building in Tel Aviv.
据以色列媒体报道，目前被拘留并在阿联酋接受讯问的阿尔-哈马尼向调查人员表示，他打算在除掉机长后，正常继续执行1073号航班，获得降落许可后，再将飞机撞向特拉维夫附近本-古里安机场的一栋建筑或另一架飞机。
al-Hammani, who is under arrest and being questioned in the UAE, told investigators that he intended to continue Flight 1073 normally after disposing of the captain, obtaining landing clearance and then crash the aircraft into a building or another plane at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, Israeli media reported.