The latest reports say the accused FlyDubai co-pilot planned to continue toward Tel Aviv, obtain landing clearance and crash the aircraft into Ben Gurion Airport or a tower block in the city. [S3]
ABC News reported more specifically that the alleged attacker intended to crash the plane into Ben Gurion Airport, citing two senior U.S. officials and an Israeli source familiar with the investigation. [S1]
Verification result: verified, because the central airport-crash allegation is directly supported by two distinct reporting families, ABC News and BBC News, and the supplied record contains no validated contradiction. [S1][S3]
The accounts differ in scope rather than directly conflict: ABC names Ben Gurion Airport, while the BBC says the reported plan allowed for either the airport or a central Tel Aviv tower block. [S1][S3]
The reporting followed an incident in which the co-pilot allegedly attacked and wounded the captain with an emergency cockpit axe before passengers overpowered him. [S3]
CBS News and BBC News both report that sources considered the accused attacker a likely lone actor. [S2][S3]
The central allegation remains provisional because ABC identifies unnamed official sources, while the BBC reported no immediate comment from Emirati or Israeli authorities and said the UAE investigation was continuing. [S1][S3]
