A Delta Air Lines flight that had taken off from New York arrived at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport on October 13. The aircraft was the same one that had been involved in an earlier incident. Upon landing, airport staff received a report that prompted an immediate safety response.
On September 30, the same Delta aircraft made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. According to reports, the co-pilot, who is Omani, attempted to stab his colleague and then sought to crash the plane. Authorities described the act as part of a terrorist plot that had Ben Gurion Airport’s terminal as its intended target.
Hamad Saif Al Shamsi stated that the co-pilot "had begun to implement a premeditated terrorist project aimed at taking control of the aircraft and using it to carry out a suicide attack against the passenger terminal of Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport." This statement links the September 30 incident directly to a broader plan to target the airport.
When the flight reached Ben Gurion on October 13, Israeli airport officials said they were acting "following a report of a suspicious object on board the aircraft.
When the flight reached Ben Gurion on October 13, Israeli airport officials said they were acting "following a report of a suspicious object on board the aircraft." The crew and passengers were evacuated while security teams searched the plane for any explosive device or hazardous material.
The spokesperson for Israel’s airport authority said the evacuation was carried out after a report of a suspicious object on board the aircraft.
After a thorough search, the authorities concluded that "the incident concluded without any unusual item being detected." They then announced that "operations are resuming normally" at the airport, indicating that the evacuation had been precautionary and that no threat was found.