Israel had made preparations to shoot down the hijacked plane taking off from Dubai. Fighter jets were dispatched as soon as the hijack alert was received. There were 174 passengers on board the plane. According to the Times of Israel report, the government feared that if control of the plane was not regained, it could reach Israel and carry out an attack like 9/11. To avert the danger the plane might have had to be shot down in the air. According to Israel’s Ambassador to India Reuven Azar, if the situation did not get better, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu might have to take a decision on action. However, the crew of the plane regained control and landed safely in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. Israel was also ready to negotiate with the hijackers. Israel had also prepared for the possibility that the hijackers might put forward their demands by holding the passengers on board the plane hostage. Israel’s national anti-terrorism and hostage rescue unit Yamam was alerted to deal with such a situation. The plan was that if the hijackers made any demands in exchange for the release of the passengers, this special unit would take charge to negotiate with them and carry out the safe evacuation of the hostages. If the plane had fallen in another country, Israel would have sent commandos. Israel had also prepared for a situation in which the hijacked plane would crash in the territory of Jordan or Saudi Arabia instead. In such a situation, a plan was made to send Shaldag, a special commando unit of the Israeli Air Force, to rescue the passengers and crew trapped in the plane. The same unit took part in the rescue operation of two American aircrew members after the crash of an American F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft in Iran in April. Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the 9/11 attacks. Nearly 3,000 people died in the 9/11 attacks that took place in America on September 11, 2001. 19 terrorists of the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda had hijacked four passenger planes. Two of these planes crashed into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York and one into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the US Defense Ministry. The fourth plane crashed into a field after protests by passengers. ———————- Read this news also… Israeli passenger learned to fly a plane by watching TV show: Stopped hijacking by catching the attacking pilot; A fight broke out between the pilots inside the cockpit on Wednesday morning in a flydubai flight going from Dubai to Tel Aviv. Omani pilot attacked Indian pilot Smit Machar with a knife. After this the plane started going down rapidly. Read the full news here…
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