The plane from Ethiopia was not allowed into Israel because of the citizenship of the pilot, media write.

TEL AVIV, October 13 - RIA Novosti. Israeli aviation authorities did not allow a cargo plane from Ethiopia into the country's airspace because one of the pilots had Indonesian citizenship, which does not have diplomatic relations with Israel, local portal Ynet reported.

Earlier, Israel tightened checks on crews of foreign airlines in connection with the recent attempted terrorist attack on board Flydubai during the Dubai-Tel Aviv flight. Pilots who are citizens of countries without diplomatic relations with Israel are officially prohibited from flying to the country.

An Ethiopian Airlines cargo plane that took off from Addis Ababa early Monday morning was denied permission to enter Israeli airspace after authorities discovered that one of the pilots was a citizen of Indonesia, a country that does not have diplomatic relations with Israel.

The Flydubai incident exposed a gap in Israel's civil aviation security system and sparked interdepartmental disputes over whose oversight allowed a Flydubai flight to Tel Aviv to allow an Omani pilot to attack the ship's captain during the flight in an attempt to seize control of the airliner.

A Flydubai plane flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv on September 30 signaled an emergency and a short time later made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. It is known that there were two reserve pilots on board. The airline later confirmed that a fight broke out between the pilots during the flight.