How to use FormData for AJAX file upload?

This is my HTML which I’m generating dynamically using drag and drop functionality.

<form method="POST" id="contact" name="13" class="form-horizontal wpc_contact" novalidate="novalidate" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<fieldset>
    <div id="legend" class="">
        <legend class="">file demoe 1</legend>
        <div id="alert-message" class="alert hidden"></div>
    </div>

    <div class="control-group">
        <!-- Text input-->
        <label class="control-label" for="input01">Text input</label>
        <div class="controls">
            <input type="text" placeholder="placeholder" class="input-xlarge" name="name">
            <p class="help-block" style="display:none;">text_input</p>
        </div>
        <div class="control-group">  </div>
        <label class="control-label">File Button</label>

        <!-- File Upload --> 
        <div class="controls">
            <input class="input-file" id="fileInput" type="file" name="file">
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="control-group">    

        <!-- Button --> 
        <div class="controls">
            <button class="btn btn-success">Button</button>
        </div>
    </div>
</fieldset>
</form> 

This is my JavaScript code:

<script>
    $('.wpc_contact').submit(function(event){
        var formname = $('.wpc_contact').attr('name');
        var form = $('.wpc_contact').serialize();               
        var FormData = new FormData($(form)[1]);

        $.ajax({
            url : '<?php echo plugins_url(); ?>'+'/wpc-contact-form/resources/js/tinymce.php',
            data : {form:form,formname:formname,ipadd:ipadd,FormData:FormData},
            type : 'POST',
            processData: false,
            contentType: false,
            success : function(data){
            alert(data); 
            }
        });
   }

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