flydubai

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UAE says Flydubai co-pilot used crash axe in terror attack

The co-pilot of Flydubai flight FZ1073 "attempted to carry out a terrorist act" when he attacked the captain with the cockpit's crash axe and tried to take over the flight controls, the United Arab Emirates' attorney general said on Saturday.…

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Oman grounded FlyDubai co-pilot over radical views

The Omani co-pilot accused of stabbing his captain and sending FlyDubai Flight 1073 into a dive had already been banned from flying in Oman over concerns about radical ideological views, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing people familiar with…

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Netanyahu warns of ‘very heavy price’ over flydubai attack

On Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Omani co-pilot accused of attacking the captain of a Dubai–Tel Aviv flydubai flight had been radicalized by Islamists and meant to crash the plane. He warned that whoever sent the man…