JUST IN: FlyDubai suspect used COCKPIT AXE during attack

. THANK YOU, CA KAYLEIGH. CHARLIE: IF YOU'RE JUST WAKING. UP WITH US THIS MORNING, OFFICIALS HAVE NOW IDENTIFIED. THE FLYDUBAI CO-PILOT ACCUSED OF. ATTEMPTING TO HIJACK A FLIGHT. HEADING TO ISRAEL. GRIFF: JEFF PAUL JOINING US LIVE. FROM TEL AVIV WITH MORE DETAILS. >> Reporter: GOOD MORNING. THE SUSPECT IN THIS CASE WAS. PREVIOUSLY HIRED BY OMAN AIR BUT. WAS LATER GROUNDED AND GIVEN A. GROUND JOB OVER SUSPICION OF HIS. ACTIVITIES. NOW, EXACTLY WHAT THOSE.

ACTIVITIES WERE, THAT HAS NOT. BEEN DISCLOSED YET. BUT THE SUSPECT, AFTER BEING. GIVEN A GROUND JOB WITH IMAM AIR. LATER MOVED TO DUBAI. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAS. IDENTIFIED HIM AS 29-YEAR-OLD. HAMAN AL-HAMMAMI. THE REPORTING HE WAS BORN IN THE. UAE AND HIS MOTHER'S FROM SYRIA. BUT WAS ABLE TO OBTAIN OMANI. CITIZENSHIP THROUGH HIS FATHER. THE EMIRATIS NOW SAY THE SUSPECT. ATTACKED THE CAPTAIN OF THE. AIRCRAFT USING THE COCKPIT'S. AXE.

THE UAE'S ATTORNEY GENERAL. SAYING THE SUSPECT THEN TRIED. THE TAKE CONTROL OF THE PLANE, ATTEMPTING TO CARRY OUT THAT. THEY'RE CALLING A TERRORIST. ATTACK. THEY'RE NOW TO WORKING TO. DETERMINE IF HE WAS WORKING WITH. MIN ELSE OR IN CONJUNCTION WITH. A FOREIGN ENTITY. ELSEWHERE IN THE REGION WE ARE. LEARNING THAT ACCORDING TO. AXIOS, PRESIDENT TRUMP'S TOP. NATIONAL SECURITY AIDES ARE SET. TO SECRETLY MEET AT CAMP DAVID. TO DISCUSS THE SITUATION IN IRAN. AND YEMEN. THIS WILL INCLUDE PEOPLE LIKE. VICE PRESIDENT J.D. VANCE AND. SECRETARY OF SITE MARCO RUBIO --.

OF STATE MARCO RUBIO. THE MEETING IS HAPPENING AS THE. U.S. SENDS THOUSANDS MORE TROOPS. TO THE MIDDLE EAST AS WELL AS. THE USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT WHICH. INCLUDES 6,000 MORE SAILORS. THAT SHIP HAS LEFT SAN DIEGO. BACK TO YOU GU.