A Flydubai pilot attacked his fellow pilot using a crash axe and tried to take control of the aircraft’s flight controls in an attempted terrorist attack, officials in the United Arab Emirates said Saturday. Emirati officials are leading investigations into the mid-air incident, which occurred Wednesday on a flight carrying 174 mostly Israeli passengers from…
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The co-pilot of the Flydubai plane travelling to Israel attacked the pilot with a crash axe in an attempt to take control of the aircraft, the United Arab Emirates prosecutor general has said. The flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv carrying more than 170 people plunged more than 17,000ft (5,200m) two and a half hours…
For many Indians who move abroad, the decision is often imagined as a straightforward trade-off: better salaries, international exposure and a different lifestyle in exchange for being away from family and familiar surroundings. But for one 35-year-old Indian engineer, 12 years of living in the US have left him questioning whether the life he built…
British police said Friday that they had charged two Iranian nationals accused of plotting a terrorist attack against the Jewish community in Manchester on the eve of Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Rahman Salehi, 34, and Salam Ahmadyan, 36, were charged with “engaging in conduct in preparation for terrorist acts” on…