Would-be FlyDubai Hijacker Had Been GROUNDED in 2024 Due to ‘Radical’ Views

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By Kevin Haggerty

The ongoing investigation of an averted alleged terrorist attack connected the extremist dots as details emerged about the would-be hijacker and why he’d been banned from flying.

Sandwiched between the 25th anniversary of September 11 and the third anniversary of the October 7 attack on Israel, a new tragedy was averted when passengers and crew aboard FlyDubai Flight 1073 thwarted a hijacker’s alleged plan to crash the plane somewhere in the Jewish State.

As the heroic efforts of the pilot and those aboard were celebrated, the identity of the co-pilot — said to have brutally stabbed the pilot — revealed him to be an Omani national previously banned from flying in his own country “over concerns he adopted radical ideological views.”

According to reporting from The Wall Street Journal, Hamam al-Hammami is the name of the would-be hijacker who intended to down the passenger flight from the United Arab Emirates to Ben Gurion Airport outside Tel Aviv. Said by a Fox News report to be 29 years old, the Journal further detailed, “Despite the ban, the pilot was hired by FlyDubai, the people said, allowing him to fly on the sensitive route connecting the United Arab Emirates and Israel.”

“It couldn’t be determined whether Oman shared concerns about the pilot’s radicalization with other countries or airlines. The nature of his radicalization couldn’t be learned,” explained the newspaper, citing further aviation-security analysts who suggested, “While a screening error might have let a weapon through, a motivated assailant should have been detected and caught long before reaching the airport.”

Speaking with Fox News, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lauded the heroes, including Indian pilot Smit Machchhar, who managed to open the cockpit door after he was stabbed, and assured that, if a broader plot was at hand, it would be exposed in due time.

“So, we’ll find out. We’ll get to the root of this attacker, whether he had accomplices, whether Iran was behind it. I think we’ll find out very soon,” said Netanyahu.

President Donald Trump similarly raised the Islamist regime as he told reporters on Thursday, “We’re working on it right now. They’re being very open with us. I would say the answer, based on what I’m hearing, is yes. But we’re working on it right now.”

Recounting his side of the story, Machchhar spoke with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi from his hospital bed and explained, “I was fighting for my life. When I was lying on the floor I could feel the aircraft was going down. I knew exactly that this would be the last push. I told myself that if I didn’t get up, there would be a problem. I managed to open the door, and then everyone else came in.”

As for how al-Hammami managed to be on the plane in the first place, commentator Stephen L. Miller was among those calling out a near-deadly hire by sharing a clip from HBO’s “Succession” with the caption, “FlyDubai hiring process.

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