️🇦🇪🇴🇲🇮🇱 WSJ: The FlyDubai co-pilot who stabbed his captain and nearly crashed Flight 1073 was previously banned from flying by Oman over concerns he held extreme ideological views, but FlyDubai hired him anyway, allowing him to fly the sensitive Dubai-Tel Aviv route.

️🇦🇪🇴🇲🇮🇱 WSJ: The FlyDubai co-pilot who stabbed his captain and nearly crashed Flight 1073 was previously banned from flying by Oman over concerns he held extreme ideological views, but FlyDubai hired him anyway, allowing him to fly the sensitive Dubai-Tel Aviv route.

Netanyahu called the incident terrorism, saying that the Omani citizens had "undergoed Islamic radicalization" and intended to destroy the plane, although further details about its identity are still unclear.