特拉维夫——一位中东地区官员向NBC新闻透露，那名试图迫使飞往以色列的航班坠毁的飞行员，原本计划效仿“9·11”事件的模式，驾机撞向以色列主要的特拉维夫机场。这位不愿公开姓名的官员称，这名被NBC新闻确认为哈曼·阿尔·哈马米的飞行员周一向调查人员表示，他试图避开以色列的防御系统，让飞机撞上本·古里安机场或其他建筑物。
TEL AVIV — The pilot who tried to bring down an Israel-bound flight had been planning a 9/11-style attack by crashing into the country’s main airport in Tel Aviv, a Middle Eastern official has told NBC News. Identified by NBC News as Hamman al Hamami, the pilot told investigators on Monday that he wanted to evade Israel’s defenses and crash into the Ben Gurion Airport or another building, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
多名来自三个相关机构的知情人士以及一位中东地区的外交官也向NBC新闻证实了哈马米的身份；据悉，哈马米为阿曼公民。目前官方尚未正式公布其身份。上周，这架从迪拜飞往特拉维夫的航班在飞行途中突发状况，随后被迫降于沙特阿拉伯；哈马米随后被转移至阿联酋，目前正接受当地调查人员的讯问。阿联酋当局上周六称，该飞行员用斧头袭击了同机副驾驶斯米特·马查尔机长，并试图夺取飞机的操控权。
An Omani citizen, multiple sources from three agencies briefed on the investigation and a diplomat in the Middle East told NBC News identified al-Hammami. Authorities have not officially released the identity. He is currently being questioned by investigators in the United Arab Emirates where he was transferred to from Saudi Arabia where the plane was diverted to after last week’s dramatic midair incident on the flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv. Emirati authorities said Saturday that the pilot attacked his fellow pilot, Capt. Smit Machchhar, with a crash ax and attempted to take control of the aircraft’s flight controls.
据航空追踪网站Flightradar24的数据，这架搭载着174名乘客（大多为以色列人）的客机在短短29秒内便急速下降了14,000英尺，引发机上一片恐慌。拥有17年飞行经验的印度籍机长马查尔周五在与以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡的通话中称，当时那名飞行员告诉他要去祈祷；由于虔诚的穆斯林每天会祈祷五次，他并未觉得这有什么异常。
The passenger jet which was carrying 174 mostly Israeli passengers then plunged plummeted 14,000 feet in just 29 seconds, according to data from aviation tracking service Flightradar24, causing panic onboard. Machchhar, an Indian national and a veteran pilot of 17 years, said in a call on Friday with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that his fellow pilot told him he was going to pray, something he didn’t consider unusual as observant Muslims pray five times a day.
几分钟后，他感到头部遭到重击。“由于最初的几次击打，我的视线几乎一片模糊，什么都看不清，”他补充道，“紧接着我就感觉到飞机正在急速下坠。”内塔尼亚胡办公室随后公布了这段通话录音。
A few minutes later, he said he felt a strong blow to the head. “Because of his initial blows, my vision was almost like nothing, and I was my I was completely blurred out,” he added. “The next feeling that I had was that the aircraft was sharply going down.”A video of the call was released by Netanyahu’s office.
起初，马查尔称自己以为“飞机遭受了灾难性损坏”，但随着打击持续不断，他才意识到“出问题的不是飞机，而是和我同在驾驶舱里的另一个人”。同样在周五，马查尔在与印度总理莫迪的通话中称，尽管遭到猛烈攻击，他还是在第二次尝试时成功打开了驾驶舱门。“我使出了全身力气，冲向舱门并将其打开。幸运的是，外面有人随时准备冲进来。”
Initially, Machchhar said he thought there was “catastrophic damage to the aircraft,” but once the blows kept coming he “realized that it’s not the aircraft, it’s the other guy who was in the cockpit with me.”In a separate call with Indian Prime Narendra Modi, also on Friday, Machchhar said he managed to open the cockpit’s door on the second attempt, despite the blows raining down. “I gave everything that I had, and just went for the door and opened the door. And thankfully, people were waiting to pounce back,” he said.
目前，人们的关注点已转向此次航班起飞前被忽视的安全警示信号。据《华尔街日报》周六援引知情人士的消息报道，因担心哈马米接受了极端意识形态影响，阿曼此前曾禁止他驾驶飞机。目前尚不清楚这位来自阿曼——一个如今已与以色列建立外交关系的阿拉伯国家——的公民，是如何获准驾驶载有以色列乘客的飞机飞往特拉维夫的。
Focus has shifted onto the missed security signals ahead of the flight. Citing sources familiar with the matter, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday that al-Hammami had “previously been banned from flying by Oman over concerns he had adopted radical ideological views.”It is unclear how a citizen of Oman, an Arab country with now diplomatic relations with Israel, was allowed to fly the plane carrying Israelis to Tel Aviv.
根据以色列法律，航空公司须在航班起飞前48小时提供乘客及机组人员的姓名、国籍等信息。事件发生后，内塔尼亚胡已要求国家安全委员会主席指派专人审查以色列民航领域的“所有安全环节”。另一方面，美国副总统万斯也强调了潜在安全漏洞带来的隐患。周一，他在安德鲁斯联合基地对记者表示：“那个人根本不该获准驾驶飞机。我们目前正在审视美国的相关程序，以确保那些存在飞行安全风险的人员无法操控飞机。”
According to Israeli law, airlines must provide information about passengers and crew members, including their names and nationalities, up to 48 hours before a flight. Netanyahu has called on the head of the National Security Council to appoint an examiner to review “all security aspects” of Israel’s civil aviation in the aftermath of the incident. Elsewhere Vice President JD Vance underlined the concerns potential security failures. “That person should not have been flying an airline, and so we’re certainly looking at our procedures within the United States to make sure that people who are obviously flight risks are not getting behind the wheel of an airplane,” he told a reporter at Joint Base Andrews on Monday.