Hamdan visits Machchhar Dubai reporter on inquiry

Oct 3

In a complete live exchange from Dubai, Manish Shiva relays the Indian embassy's medical-care update and thanks to UAE authorities, then describes Hamdan's later hospital visit and praise for Machchhar's courage, responsibility and protection of human life. He interprets the response as reflecting human and India–UAE ties and briefly recalls Modi's earlier appreciation. Asked about the inquiry, he attributes two preliminary findings to UAE authorities: a planned attempted terrorist act and an attack with the aircraft's crash axe followed by attempted control. He distinguishes these findings from unresolved circumstances and motive. The host's questions and the correspondent's complete responses are retained.

On October 3, the UAE attorney general describes the Flydubai co-pilot's attack on the captain as an attempted terrorist act and an attempt to seize the aircraft using a cockpit emergency axe. Tagesthemen reports the official classification; Tagesschau's earlier bulletin describes mounting terrorism suspicion and attributes seizure intent to the UAE investigation. Both recount passenger intervention. The official assessment develops the September 30 cockpit incident; it is separate from the October 1 decision to form an inquiry team. Neither broadcast establishes a state sponsor or completed findings on all motives and links. DD India's October 3 package and complete Dubai correspondent exchange attribute planned attempted terrorism, the crash-axe attack and attempted aircraft control to the UAE authorities. They distinguish these preliminary findings from unresolved circumstances, motive and possible links, and describe physical/digital examinations as ongoing. CCTV's same-day brief also relays the attorney general's attempted-terror finding and explicitly leaves motive/details under investigation. The three broadcasts support the same October 3 official assessment; the earlier Oman-airline media allegation remains outside its event-specific passage.