Flydubai flight FZ1073: terrorist trail confirmed after attack on captain

The terrorist trail has been confirmed. This Saturday, the Attorney General of the United Arab Emirates, Hamad Saif Al Shamsi, indicated that investigations into the incident of Flydubai flight FZ1073 revealed that “the co-pilot had begun to carry out a terrorist act”, that he had “attacked the captain in the cockpit using the emergency ax” and tried “to take control of the plane”. He specified that the investigation was continuing “in order to establish all the circumstances of the incident and its motivations”.

The incident took place on September 30 aboard a plane from Dubai to Tel Aviv, Israel. The co-pilot attacked the Indian captain in mid-flight, who still managed to open the cockpit door, allowing passengers and crew members to overpower the attacker. The plane, which had fallen precipitously during the scuffle, was able to land urgently in Saudi Arabia.

Banned from flying and suspected of radicalization by his country

Earlier this Saturday, the Al-Arabiyah channels, CNN and ABC as well as the Wall Street Journal, indicated that the co-pilot, whose father is Omani and mother Syrian, had been banned from piloting planes for security reasons by the Omani authorities, who believed that he had been influenced by radical Islamist groups during a stay in Syria.

According to these same media, the future attacker, named Hammam Al-Hammami, had joined Flydubai after leaving his employer Oman Air and unsuccessfully applied for a position with the Emirates company.