A general station reporter learned on October 5, local time, that an official familiar with Israel said that the Omani co-pilot Hammam Hamami, who recently attacked the captain of the Dubai Airlines passenger plane, had already begun planning the attack before he joined the company. Israeli sources familiar with the details of the UAE investigation said that Hamami had planned to carry out an attack on one of its flights to Tel Aviv in the past year, but eventually abandoned it. In an interrogation conducted by the UAE security department, Hamami admitted that it had applied for jobs with all airlines, and that its core purpose was to find opportunities to fly the Tel Aviv route. According to reports, an Israeli investigation team arrived in the UAE on the 3rd to participate in the joint investigation. Israel's current assessment is that Hamami's move was a separate act.

A general station reporter learned on October 5, local time, that an official familiar with Israel said that the Omani co-pilot Hammam Hamami, who recently attacked the captain of the Dubai Airlines passenger plane, had already begun planning the attack before he joined the company. Israeli sources familiar with the details of the UAE investigation said that Hamami had planned to carry out an attack on one of its flights to Tel Aviv in the past year, but eventually abandoned it. In an interrogation conducted by the UAE security department, Hamami admitted that it had applied for jobs with all airlines, and that its core purpose was to find opportunities to fly the Tel Aviv route. According to reports, an Israeli investigation team arrived in the UAE on the 3rd to participate in the joint investigation. Israel's current assessment is that Hamami's move was a separate act.