The co-pilot suspected of the attempted attack on the FlyDubai flight has been identified

The co-pilot suspected of Wednesday's attempted terrorist attack on the FlyDubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv was identified by several US media as Hamam al-Hammami, a 29-year-old Omani: on a LinkedIn profile under that name - later removed - 2 posts were published 9 hours after the incident. The first with footage shot from the cockpit of a Boeing 737 Max, with footage of planes from Israeli companies such as El Al, and a photo of Ayman al-Zawahiri, who led al-Qaeda after Osama bin Laden. The second with images of Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem. Meanwhile, an Israeli investigation team arrived in the United Arab Emirates to participate in Hammami's interrogation. Two Maldivian co-pilots from FlyDubai, who lived in the same building as al-Hammani and had already operated flights to Israel, were also interviewed. The Emirati authorities have not brought charges against them.

Israel received the crew list of the FlyDubai flight in advance

Meanwhile, it is learned that Israel received the list of crew members of the FlyDubai flight in advance, Haaretz writes, citing security sources according to whom the security department of the Ministry of Transport and the Mossad are responsible for monitoring non-Israeli flight crews and issuing warnings in case of anomalies. When asked about this, the Israeli Tax Authority confirmed to the Israeli newspaper that it had received the list from Flydubai, while the Ministry of Transport did not respond to the question of whether or not it had received the list and whether it had examined it.

Previous work and radicalization

The co-pilot was removed from his previous post for Oman's national airline last year over concerns about his extremist views. Al-Hammami was born in the United Arab Emirates to an Omani father and a Syrian mother and spent several years of his life in the United Arab Emirates, added one of the sources cited by CNN. The LinkedIn profile with his name indicates that he worked for Oman Air for seven years, leaving the company in February 2025, before joining Royal Air Maroc in June 2025 leaving it in January 2026. One of the US media sources confirmed that the profile belongs to the FlyDubai co-pilot involved in the accident, but the profile has since been removed. An Israeli official told CNN that al-Hammami had worked for FlyDubai for just eight months.

He had lost his flying qualification

Saudi broadcaster Al Arabiya, citing an "informed source", reports that al-Hammami had left Oman after being removed from the Gulf country's airline and losing his flying qualification. According to the broadcaster, he may have been influenced by "extremist ideas" coming from "radical groups" in Syria, his mother's country of origin and where he had spent time even though he was born in and had lived for a long time in the United Arab Emirates.