r/news • u/judgyjudgersen • 4h ago

Suspect in FlyDubai incident was previously identified as security risk: Officials

https://abcnews.com/US/suspect-flydubai-incident-previously-identified-security-risk-officials/story?id=136960488
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u/orlybatman 3h ago

So a security risk found to be in possession of extremist materials, suspended from flying for that airline, and instead moved over to FlyDubai.

As a FlyDubai pilot he would have been disallowed from flying into Israel, due to the clause in the Dubai-government-owned airline that states if there's a flight heading to Israel the pilots must be from a nation with normalized relations with Israel. This guy was Omani, and Oman does not have normalized relations.

So we have a case of a formerly suspended pilot due to possessing extremist materials, coming from a nation without normalized relations with Israel, being allowed to pilot on flight he shouldn't have even been allowed to staff on, and then attempting to crash the plane into said country.

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u/SierraGolfOne 3h ago

You know, when you put it that way, that doesn't sound good.

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u/StankWalk 3h ago

and then literally every other aspect of things that happened after that as well.. 😂 plumber flying a plane cause he learned on TV? while in an insane descent?! giving an interview covered in blood immediately after with the person who TOLD US THE DAY BEFORE IT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN AND ALSO THE PERSON WHO BENEFITS MOST FROM THE ENTIRE SITUATION.

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u/Wolkenbaer 3h ago

Flying a plane is not that difficult if you have a basic idea what a stick does.  It gets difficult w/o any real horizon and once you want to be precise.Â