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The terrorist Hamam al-Hammami, who planned an attack on a FlyDubai aircraft with 174 passengers, stopped his first attack in July due to the presence of a friend in the cockpit, while he now faces the death penalty in the United Arab Emirates. #Terroranschlag #Flughafen #Weltgeschehen (translated)

A passenger reports an incident on the Flydubai flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Israel, where the co-pilot attempted to deliberately crash the aircraft while the cockpit was temporarily unoccupied, and passengers had to intervene to regain control of the airplane. #Flydubai #Flugangriff #Israelsicherheit (translated)

Mick van Wely wrote that earlier that week he was shocked by reports in which the thwarted terrorist attack on a FlyDubai aircraft was described by some media as a fight in the cockpit. He called that deliberate disinformation and stated that there was boundless activism in the journalism surrounding Gaza and Israel. #terreur #journalistiek #GazaIsrael (translated)

Benjamin Netanyahu praised Indian pilot Smit Machchhar, described as a true hero, for saving a Flydubai flight by opening the cockpit door after being attacked by his co-pilot, thus allowing passengers to subdue the assailant and avert a disaster. #Héros #Israël #Inde (translated)

Today in the Military World published a report attributed to Flydubai pilot Smit Machchhar, who said that the co-pilot stood up to pray and, a few minutes later, he attacked him. Machchhar stated that he tried to open the cockpit door, but the co-pilot closed it and he fell; when he managed to open it again, he saw people waiting to enter. The publication attributed the pilot's actions to the rescue of more than 170 people, mostly Jewish tourists, and described the incident as an Islamic terrorist attack. According to the account, the co-pilot attacked Machchhar with the hatchet kept in the cockpit for emergencies. #Voo #SegurançaAérea #Heroísmo (translated)

Mick van Wely wrote that some media had described a thwarted terrorist attack as a dispute in the cockpit. According to him, the reporting on Israel and Gaza was becoming increasingly biased and colored. He urged media not to be influenced by the conflict and to do their job. #media #Israël #Gaza (translated)

Media reports reveal that the co-pilot of a Flydubai flight, suspected of an attack in the cockpit, was previously not allowed to fly by his former employer Oman Air due to suspicions of extremism and is now considered by authorities in the Emirates to be a perpetrator of a terrorist act. #Flydubai #Terrorakt #Extremismus (translated)

The co-pilot of a Flydubai passenger plane that made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia planned to carry out a terrorist act by attacking the pilot with a hatchet in the cockpit, resulting in serious injuries to the pilot, while investigations into the perpetrator's motives and extremist background in Oman are ongoing. #Flydubai #Terrorverdacht #Luftfahrt (translated)

Sofie Löwenmark wrote that the Flydubai pilot who attacked the captain with an emergency axe had previously been barred from flying for Oman Air due to Islamist extremist views. Despite this, he later ended up in the cockpit of a plane to Tel Aviv. https://t.co/lBwn5w0LKP #Flygsäkerhet #Terrorism #Luftfart (translated)

The pilot of FlyDubai flight, Smit Machchhar, heroically saved the passengers from a crash by managing to open the cockpit door despite his injuries and shared his account with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi from a hospital in Abu Dhabi. #PiloteHéroïque #SécuritéAérienne #Sauvetage (translated)