India, Oct. 4 -- A deleted account of Omani co-pilot Hamam Al Hammami carried a video containing cockpit footage showing Israeli aircraft and ended with photographs of former Al-Qaeda chief Zawahiri and Jordanian suicide bomber al-Balawi.

The United Arab Emirates on Saturday described the attack by the Omani co-pilot of FlyDubai flight FZ1073 on Indian Captain Smit Machchhar as an attempted terrorist act, saying he used the aircraft's emergency crash axe to attack the captain and tried to seize control of the flight controls. The UAE Attorney-General said the co-pilot had begun executing his plan during the flight, while investigators continue to establish the full circumstances, motives and any links to the incident. The development cam...