More Distressing Details Emerge on FlyDubai Hijack

In the hours since we realized about the tried hijacking of a FlyDubai flight originating in the United Arab Emirates and flying to Israel, more background info on the Omani co-pilot and the assault on the captain is filtering out. Some of those particulars are distressing.

As PinkState wrote on Thursday morning, during an interview on Fox News, “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicated one factor they’ve realized: The co-pilot who tried the takeover had undergone Islamic radical indoctrination and terrorist training.”

The copilot who stabbed the pilot in the cockpit of FlyDubai flight 1073 was an Omani national who went through “Islamist radical indoctrination,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed in a Thursday interview with Fox & Friends.

“The attacker, the copilot who attacked the captain, is now being interrogated, but here’s what we do know: First, we know that, he underwent Islamist radical indoctrination,” Netanyahu told Fox & Friends.

“That appears to be something we’re gathering from the information – his personal information,” he added

Matt Vespa at our sister website Townhall has also written on the assault, with The New York Post reporting about the major purple flags in advance about this pilot, including at the airport before the flight. The NYP reported:

The flydubai staffer accused of attempting to hijack a airplane carrying 174 people to Israel by stabbing the lead pilot was identified as a spiritual extremist who refused to shake palms with ladies, according to a colleague.

The co-pilot accountable for what Israel’s protection minister called “a jihadist terrorist attack” Wednesday has not been named publicly, but was an Omani national who had labored for the airline for less than a yr.

He was “someone characterized by very strange behavior, especially around religious observances that were out of step with his surroundings,” a fellow pilot told Israel’s Channel 16 journalist Yosef Yisrael.

“For instance, he used to pray a lot, and would not shake hands with women,” Yisrael said of what the pilot told him on the condition of anonymity.

The colleague claimed flydubai – a sister airline of Emirates – had “betrayed” the Jewish State by hiring the pilot who others have said appeared determined to crash the airplane in another 9/11.

“There is no other way to put it, we hired the services of a terrorist and nearly caused the deaths of 180 people,” the co-worker reportedly told the journalist.

“Usually only Emiratis fly to Israel. It is not clear how he got on this flight.”

In any case, he mustn’t have been in a position to get through security heading to Israel while holding a passport from Oman, as Vespa added, and that lapse is being reviewed:

Investigators are also trying into how this pilot was in a position to board the flight: you must have a passport from a nation with diplomatic relations with Israel to land in the nation.Oman is just not on the checklist

As talked about at the top, there’s now more info rising on Thursday night.

A spokesman for Netanyahu said Israel has investigators on the way in which to the UAE, where the suspect has already been returned, in hopes of uncovering any conspiracy, including whether or not the pilot was told or ordered by somebody to perform the hijacking plot:

Israel is sending investigators to the United Arab Emirates to help decide whether or not anybody directed the co-pilot accused of attempting to convey down the Dubai-to-Tel Aviv flight, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.

David Mencer told “The Story” that Netanyahu confirmed the Omani suspect had been transferred to the UAE, permitting Israeli groups to be part of the UAE-led investigation.

“We’ll get to know a whole lot more information now that he’s in the UAE and we can join the investigation,” Mencer said.

Also in the Fox News update linked above, from info offered by David Mencer, was this horrifying element: the Omani pilot reportedly tried to sabotage the airplane’s controls during his transfer to take down the airliner.

Mencer also relayed a chilling account Netanyahu obtained from a passenger who entered the cockpit: The attacker was allegedly standing over the plane’s controls and utilizing his toes to destroy them while attacking the captain.

“His objective was to bring down that airplane,” Mencer said.

This is a developing story. PinkState will present additional updates as more info turns into out there. 

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