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The incident aboard FlyDubai flight FZ1073 has yielded some confirmed facts, but it is still too early to draw firm conclusions. The passenger jet was flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv on Wednesday when a confrontation broke out in the cockpit. The aircraft then transmitted a distress signal and made an emergency landing in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. All 174 passengers and crew members survived.

 

The FlyDubai cockpit attack is over. The hardest questions remain

The FlyDubai emergency puts aviation’s insider threat under scrutiny against a backdrop of war and growing regional radicalization

BY Farhad Ibragimov

 

According to media reports, the plane lost altitude rapidly, while passengers and airline employees aboard helped subdue the attacker and restore control to the crew. Early wire reports offered conflicting accounts, including claims of a hijacking, because the aircraft had transmitted the corresponding emergency signal.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the copilot had attacked the captain and apparently tried to crash the plane. Defense Minister Israel Katz described the incident as an attempted jihadist terrorist attack. Israeli authorities have already characterized it as an attempted act of terrorism, drawing comparisons with the September 11, 2001 attacks. But the investigation is ongoing, and no final findings have been released. FlyDubai confirmed that an altercation had occurred in the cockpit and said investigators were working to establish its cause and the motives involved. Authorities in the United Arab Emirates also announced an investigation and urged the public not to spread unverified information. Saudi officials confirmed the emergency landing and said both pilots had been hospitalized.

The central question – what exactly happened – therefore remains unresolved. Israel has already said it views the incident as an act of terrorism. Yet the publicly available evidence is still insufficient to establish an ideological motive, an intention to kill Israelis specifically, or any connection between the attacker and an organization. Investigators are examining his motives, the circumstances of the attack, and whether it involved advance planning.

Media reports identified the suspect as the copilot and an Omani citizen, but those details came from Israeli sources and have not been confirmed by all parties. No information has been released about whether he made any statements, had contact with radical groups, or acted on someone else’s instructions. FlyDubai has explicitly warned against jumping to conclusions.

Two separate questions need to be distinguished here. The first is whether the attacker acted alone aboard the aircraft. Reports suggest that only one person carried out the attack in the cockpit. The second is whether he was a lone extremist in the political sense: someone acting on his own initiative, without outside connections, support, or a prearranged plan. That remains unknown. A single perpetrator does not necessarily mean there was no organization behind him. Equally, an attack on a plane bound for Israel does not, by itself, prove that such an organization existed.

If investigators establish that the copilot deliberately tried to destroy the aircraft because it was headed to Tel Aviv or because Israelis were aboard, the incident could be classified as a terrorist attack carried out through access granted by his job. That would distinguish it from the more familiar scenario of an attacker trying to board a plane with a weapon. In that case, the security challenge would extend beyond passenger screening to the possibility of someone exploiting a trusted position within the aviation system.

Radicalization as the political backdrop

Still, it is also too early to dismiss the incident as a personal dispute between two crew members. The flight was bound for Israel, and the confrontation occurred in a region where protracted conflict is a fact of daily life. This week, the Israel Defense Forces again struck Gaza, killing Palestinian civilians. Under those circumstances, there can hardly be any meaningful talk of a ceasefire. In September, further attacks took place in the West Bank, where no Hamas fighters were involved: an armed assailant attacked an Israeli, while settlers attacked a Palestinian family.

Radicalization in this context is not simply a matter of new armed groups emerging. It also means a growing number of people coming to see violence as an acceptable political response, assigning collective responsibility for a government’s actions to entire populations, and treating any compromise as betrayal. The longer military operations, civilian deaths, and mutual recriminations continue, the easier it becomes for extremists to portray violence as “retribution” or “resistance” instead of a crime. Different forces employ this rhetoric, but it does not absolve individual perpetrators of responsibility for attacking civilians.

Israel’s military operations in Gaza, conditions in the West Bank, settlement expansion, and inflammatory statements by Israeli officials deepen the region’s sense of injustice, particularly among those who identify with their “Palestinian brothers and sisters.” This helps radical movements emerge and readily recruit supporters who believe they have a moral right to seek revenge by any means available. In their view, all’s fair in war. This is already a significant political factor that cannot be ignored. Across the Middle East, Israel’s policies are almost universally seen as a cause of rising terrorism.

There is another side to this dynamic. Attacks on Israeli civilians and threats to Israel’s security strengthen public support within Israel for the use of force. Retaliatory measures then give fresh ammunition to those calling for radical resistance. The result is a vicious cycle in which each side invokes the other’s violence to justify its own course. The FlyDubai incident may prove to be part of that pattern, and revenge cannot be ruled out as the attacker’s motive.

Could it happen again?

There is no guarantee that similar attempts will not occur, especially if investigators confirm that the attack was ideologically motivated and deliberately targeted a flight to Israel. Such a finding would likely lead to tighter security for flights serving Israel, including more rigorous personnel vetting, revised cockpit access procedures, and closer monitoring of crew behavior. Israeli authorities have already announced stronger aviation security measures, while FlyDubai has suspended flights to Israel pending the investigation.

But a single incident is not enough to predict a “wave” of similar attacks. That would require evidence of preparations, organizers, connected perpetrators, or at least statements from groups claiming responsibility. None of that has been made public so far. What we have is an incident that was averted almost miraculously, a possible terrorist motive, and a persistently unstable regional backdrop.

Nor would the threat necessarily take the form of repeated attacks on aircraft. With security tightened, terrorist cells could turn to less protected targets and simpler methods. If the attacker is found to have gained access to the aircraft through his professional position, the most important lesson would concern more than the safety of flights to Israel. It would expose the aviation industry’s vulnerability to a new kind of insider threat.

It bears repeating that it is too early to state conclusively that this was a terrorist attack. Investigators have yet to establish a motive or reconstruct the full sequence of events. But there is also no basis for explaining it away as an ordinary quarrel between pilots. The aircraft was headed to Tel Aviv; one pilot attacked the other, and the plane subsequently lost altitude rapidly. Investigators are closely examining the possibility of terrorism alongside other explanations. For now, all that is known is that the attacker acted alone aboard the aircraft – if this was indeed a terrorist attack. Whether he had ties to a group, and what drove him, remain to be determined.

Radicalization is intensifying across the region. That does not mean every new incident is part of a wider conspiracy, or that attacks on Israeli targets will inevitably become more frequent. But the possibility of further violence will remain as long as wars, repression, mutual dehumanization, and political mobilization fueled by hatred continue – a process at which Israel’s far-right ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich have proved all too “successful.”

https://www.rt.com/news/646529-flydubai-cockpit-attack-questions/

 

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A hijacking and attempted terror attack aboard a FlyDubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv has raised suspicions after it unfolded just hours after a warning from Benjamin Netanyahu about potential pre-election attacks on Israel. The flight, filled with Israeli passengers, transmitted hijack codes and plummeted thousands of feet before diverting to Saudi Arabia. Initial reports of a struggle in the cockpit were followed by the news that Israeli passengers, two of whom were pilots, subdued the attacker and landed the plane.


Something Is VERY Wrong With This Israeli Hijacking Story w Col. Dan Davis

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aussie link?....

 

Australian authorities are investigating the links between the country and a Flydubai co-pilot who attempted to take control of a plane travelling to Israel.

The co-pilot is alleged to have attacked the captain with a crash axe during a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv before passengers managed to overpower him and successfully take control of the plane.

The Australian authorities have not identified the co-pilot, who has been named by multiple media outlets including Reuters, CNN and The New York Times as Hamam al-Hammami.

The prosecutor in the UAE has said it is investigating the incident and any possible motives.

In a statement to the BBC, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) confirmed its investigation into "the man's links to Australia".

The investigation involves state police and the country's security agency, it said, adding that an update would be "provided at the appropriate time".

Sources familiar with the case, who have spoken to Australian media, have said the co-pilot was issued a student visa in 2014, and studied in Australia between 2015 and 2017, until he left the country.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) said the co-pilot's student visa was cancelled in 2019 as he was no longer enrolled in a course, making him ineligible for it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxly4nym57q9o

 

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set up?.....

 

Multiple security and vetting failures across Oman, the UAE, and Israel allowed a pilot previously deemed too radical to fly to reach the cockpit of a Tel Aviv-bound FlyDubai passenger jet and attack its captain, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing sources.

The near-disaster occurred on Wednesday onboard the Boeing 737 MAX 8 flying from Dubai to Ben Gurion Airport with around 180 passengers and crew members. Roughly two hours into the flight, co-pilot Hamam Hammami asked Capt. Smit Machchhar if he could pray, and after receiving permission, hit him several times with an emergency axe as the plane went into a dangerous dive.

However, the badly wounded captain managed to open the locked cockpit door, allowing passengers and crew to rush in and overpower Hammami. Two other Flydubai pilots traveling aboard the flight took the controls and eventually landed the plane safely in Saudi Arabia. The UAE attorney general has called the assault an attempted terrorist act, with the investigation still ongoing.

However, red flags about Hammami had emerged long before takeoff. Omani authorities had scrutinized Hammami’s online activity while he worked for Oman Air and concluded that he “showed too much interest in radical ideology to trust as a pilot,” according to the WSJ. He was subsequently barred from flying, sent through a deradicalization program, and transferred to a desk job.

Oman, however, did not circulate its concerns more broadly or formally revoke his license in a way that would likely have alerted the UAE, the paper reported.

When Flydubai hired Hammami, it conducted a criminal-background check, but did not contact Oman to verify his employment history, according to the WSJ. After being hired, Hammami subsequently flew the sensitive Tel Aviv route on several occasions.

One of the last missed opportunities to stop Hammami was reportedly on Israel’s side. While Flydubai submitted its passenger and crew manifest before departure, Hammami was not flagged despite Omani pilots being barred from flying into Israel because the countries lack diplomatic relations, according to the paper.

Israel’s Transportation Ministry said it did not believe it had the authority or intelligence capability to vet crews and had never requested access to a passenger-information database established in 2023.

CNN earlier reported that now-deleted social-media accounts bearing Hammami’s name contained material featuring Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri and a suicide bomber who killed seven CIA personnel and two others in 2009. The network’s analysis of Hammami’s alleged X account also found him “deeply religious and misogynistic.”

“If this was a dedicated jihadist terror attack, there are multiple levels of failure,” aviation-security expert Matthew Borie told the WSJ.

Meanwhile, Machchhar’s actions, which helped to prevent the disaster, drew widespread praise. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said his courage had helped avert a major tragedy, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described him as a “hero of the entire world.”

https://www.rt.com/news/646754-security-failures-flydubai-attack/

 

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liedubai....

 

Flight 1073: The Official Story and a Pilot’s Dissent

by Larry C. Johnson

 

On the morning of September 30, flydubai flight FZ1073, a Boeing 737 MAX 8, left Dubai for Tel Aviv with 174 passengers aboard, 27 of them children. About two and a half hours into the flight, the first officer attacked the captain, Smit Machchhar, an Indian national. The aircraft dropped roughly 17,000 feet in one to two minutes. The crew squawked a general emergency, then the hijack code, and Israeli fighter jets were scrambled. The plane diverted to Tabuk in northwest Saudi Arabia and landed safely. Everyone on board survived.

The official account came together over the following days. The UAE called it a terrorist attack and said the co-pilot struck the captain with the cockpit’s crash axe, an emergency tool kept on the flight deck. According to the Associated Press, sources identified him as Hamam al-Hammami, an Omani national born in the UAE who had traveled to Syria. Oman had reportedly barred him from flying over concerns that he had adopted extremist views and moved him to an administrative job at Oman Air. flydubai hired him anyway. A Gulf diplomat said the pre-hiring checks looked for criminal convictions, not signs of radicalization. Security services from four regional countries, assisted by the United States and other Western governments, are investigating. So far they say they have found no link to a militant group, which points to a man acting alone.

The rescue, as officially described, went like this. A spokesman for Prime Minister Netanyahu said the wounded captain opened the cockpit door himself. Two flydubai pilots traveling as passengers, one South African and one New Zealander, took over the controls, while crew and passengers restrained the attacker. One of them, an Israeli plumber named Yaniv Hayoun, said he put the co-pilot in a chokehold and dragged him out of the cockpit. Netanyahu embraced Hayoun when the passengers reached Tel Aviv. Other reports say the cabin crew used the emergency access code to get into the cockpit; that has not been confirmed.

The incident also landed in the middle of an Israeli election campaign; Israelis vote on October 27. The day before the flight, during a visit to Tel Nof air base, Netanyahu warned that there were “indications that, ahead of the elections, our enemies will try to attack us.” He named no country and no target. After the attack, Defense Minister Israel Katz said those warnings had been based on intelligence, and Netanyahu pointed to Iran and its proxies as bent on stepping up attacks on Israelis abroad.

That claim was quickly disputed from inside Israel. Security officials told Hebrew-language media that they had no knowledge of any specific attack threat. Opposition leader Yair Lapid, who received a security briefing from Netanyahu the night before the flight, said nothing resembling the plane incident came up, and that the warning he was shown was more than two years old and had nothing to do with aircraft. Investigators, for their part, have so far found no sign that any state or organization directed the attack.

I believe Netanyahu is using this incident to boost his election prospects. Three weeks before Israelis go to the polls, a prime minister who warned of unnamed enemies got a dramatic attack, an Israeli hero to embrace when the passengers reached Tel Aviv, and a fresh reason to point at Iran, even though his own security officials say they had no warning of a plot like this. I am not alone in seeing the political calculation. Daniel Levy, a former Israeli government adviser, told Al Jazeera the story could shift voters’ attention toward Iran and away from domestic problems. Not everyone agrees it will work: Ahron Bregman of King’s College London argued the attack caught Netanyahu as off guard as everyone else and doubted he would benefit. But the speed with which he and Katz turned the episode into proof of their warnings tells me where their priorities lie.

Then there is the question of how al-Hammami got into a flydubai cockpit at all. A foreign pilot cannot simply show up and fly for a UAE airline. He needs a UAE residence visa sponsored by his employer, a license and medical certificate from the General Civil Aviation Authority, and, at some airlines, a police clearance from his home country. The UAE has some of the most capable security services in the Gulf, and since the Abraham Accords it has worked closely with Israel on intelligence and security. Yet a man reportedly grounded by his own national airline over extremist views passed through that system. According to his LinkedIn profile as reported by CNN, he even flew for Royal Air Maroc in between. A Gulf diplomat told the Associated Press that his pre-hiring checks looked for criminal convictions, not signs of radicalization, and it is still unclear whether Oman ever shared its concerns with anyone. That is either an extraordinary failure of vetting by a country that prides itself on security, or a sign that Gulf states do not share the very information that would stop a man like this. Either way, the UAE owes an explanation.

Israel’s side of the screening failed too. Under a 2023 law, Israeli authorities receive crew and passenger lists up to 48 hours before departure, and Haaretz reported that the Transportation Ministry and the Mossad are responsible for checking foreign flight crews. Netanyahu has acknowledged a “loophole” and promised tighter checks.

Important questions remain unanswered. How did a man grounded by his own country over extremism end up in the right-hand seat of an airliner? How did he get past Israel’s rule that foreign carriers keep pilots from countries without diplomatic relations, Oman among them, off flights into Israel? And what was his motive? Netanyahu himself said it was too early to say whether Iran was involved.

Those gaps have invited other explanations. A pilot who follows my interviews wrote to me with his. He believes the co-pilot was manipulated into the attack by handlers, and he names Israel as the likely culprit. Some of what he describes matches the public record: there were deadheading pilots on board, and the co-pilot was already known to security services. Other parts, including how the cockpit door was opened, go beyond or differ from what has been reported, and his central claim rests on inference rather than evidence. I present his letter as he wrote it so readers can weigh it against the record above.

 

Hi Larry,

Here is my guess as to what happened.

First of all, I was involved when 6-7 DEA undercover agents spent many months befriending and then encouraging a US ex-pat living in the Caribbean ( who had not only never used any illegal drugs, but also had no previous criminal record) to fly a load of drugs into the Marathon Florida Keys Airport.  On board his expensive private turbine aircraft were the 6-7 undercover DEA agents, who were not carrying any ID, along with the smuggled drugs.  I was there. (it’s a helluva story if you want to hear it some time)

Ever since, EVERY TIME something happens like 911, the young man accused of shooting Charlie Kirk, etc.  Have you noticed something that ALL of these events have in common? Law enforcement magically happens to have the “suspects” already in their files, often on a watch list.  Law enforcement ALWAYS knows who these “suspects” were BEFORE the incident.  And then magically, evidence just happens to appear that totally convinces the public that the “suspect” is the guilty person(s).  It’s the look here, don’t look there theme.  Investigation is over, they got their man, so there’s no need to investigate further.

EVERY one of these people is set up in advance to either do something, or to be the patsy.  Sometimes it might only take several weeks, or maybe even many months , to convince somebody to do an incident, and then stage an incident with the blame placed somewhere else , and with an air-tight criminal case pre-planned.  Maybe I’m cynical, but I was involved in that DEA incident.

So… I absolutely believe the co-pilot who attacked the pilot of the FlyDubai incident was a set up.  Notice how he just happened to already be on security services radar?  How convenient!  And how extra pilots just happened to be on board?  Again how convenient!  Those backup pilots could be, and probably were, not part of this incident.  The fewer people in on something, the less chance of something leaking.  How long did Israel (who else?) spend working on that co-pilot to get him to do this?  Weeks? Months?  The co-pilot probably doesn’t even realize he was being set up by Israel.

Here’s how I guess this staged event went down.  The co-pilot had planned (with his handlers help) the attack for that particular flight (so that backup pilots could accidentally be on that same flight. probably without any pre-knowledge of what was about to happen).  When the pilot was attacked he would start screaming in pain, as well as calling out for help. Even over aircraft noise, the loud screams and calls for help would be heard by flight attendants thru the locked cockpit door.  Senior flight attendants have a secret 6-digit code to unlock the cockpit door in an emergency.  After entering the 6-digit emergency code, warning lights started  flashing and warning horns went off in cockpit, signaling to the flight crew that someone was using emergency procedures to enter the cockpit.  The light flashing and horn buzzing would continue for 30 seconds.  After those 30 seconds the cockpit door would unlock for 5 seconds, giving time for someone to open the cockpit door.

During those 30 seconds, flight attendants would have brought the backup pilots forward.  Flight attendants ALWAYS know when other pilots are on board, because flight crews are registered as a separate category of passengers ( because pilots always fly free while transferring to-from other locations, either flying to-from home, or to pick up a flight where they are the flight crew etc). So every flight attendant knows who every dead-heading flight crew is on every flight.  The flight attendants would also pick some strong guy who is sitting towards the front of the plane (maybe he was given his seat location to conveniently be located close to cockpit door? (probably without having ANY knowledge of what was about to happen).

Pilot is attacked.  He starts screaming out in pain, and yelling for help.  Flight attendants enter 6-digit emergency code, while other flight attendants grab a strong looking man from near the front of the plane, and one or two dead-heading pilots, bringing them to the front of the plane.  As soon as the 30 seconds have elapsed flight attendants open the unlocked cockpit door.  Big strong Israeli guy ( it just has to be an Israeli…) enters cockpit along with 1-2 dead-heading pilots.  Attacker is subdued, and backup flight crew takes control of the aircraft.

The pilot was strapped into his seat throughout the attack while fending off the attacker.  Co-pilot, aka attacker, probably had removed his seatbelt and shoulder straps before attacking pilot, giving him more mobility during attack.  After attack started, he probably got out of his seat to continue attack, and the pilot, desperate to stop the attack, slammed the controls forward to through attacker off-balance.  It would not have took much of a dive to throw somebody off balance, or even to the floor, giving pilot a little time. Depending on how severe the dive was, it could have even thrown attacker upwards banging into overhead panels.  Giving the pilot precious seconds to fight back before help arrived.

And get this.  NOBODY on that flight, not even the attacker, has the slightest clue what just really happened.  And when plane gets to Israel, the Son of Satan treats like the Israeli plumber like a national hero… AND who just happened to save his election (so he wouldn’t go to jail).

OK, so I’m cynical.  I am not a betting man… but I’ll bet my own money that this IS what happened.

https://sonar21.com/flight-1073-the-official-story-and-a-pilots-dissent/

 

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