UAE Chief Public Prosecutor's Office Announces Flydubai Aircraft Co-Pilot's Allegation of Attempted Terrorist Act

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Chief Public Prosecutor's Office announced that the incident involving the co-pilot of the Flydubai plane flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv was an attempted terrorist act.

He announced that the investigation found that the second pilot attempted to commit a terrorist act. It was announced that the attacker who aimed to shoot down the plane in Israel was 29-year-old Omani citizen Hamam El-Hammami. It was stated that the co-pilot carried out the attack with the emergency ax in the cockpit and tried to take control of the plane.

It was learned that before the aggressive pilot started working at FlyDubai, he was banned from flying in Oman due to his radical ideological views and was suspended from his job at Oman Air. Al-Hammami, whose mother was Syrian and born in the UAE, was also an Omani citizen.

'Extremist views'

Al-Hammami, who was determined by Omani authorities to have "extremist views", spent a period in Syria. Authorities state that the co-pilot may have come under the influence of radical groups during this period.

CNN's analysis of Al-Hammami's deleted Twitter account shows that he is a religious extremist and misogynist. ABC News, in its report based on senior intelligence and security officials, claimed that the suspect had radical content materials even during the pilot training process. It is stated that the situation will increase concerns about the importance of background checks in recruitment in the aviation industry.

Israel has already received the crew list