{"id":93953,"date":"2026-10-05T14:44:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T14:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/new-details-on-flydubai-copilot-suspect-as-hero-pilot-describes-attack\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T14:44:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T14:44:05","slug":"new-details-on-flydubai-copilot-suspect-as-hero-pilot-describes-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/new-details-on-flydubai-copilot-suspect-as-hero-pilot-describes-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"New details on FlyDubai copilot suspect as &#8216;hero&#8217; pilot describes attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The alleged attacker on the FlyDubai flight to Israel intended to crash the plane into Tel Aviv&#8217;s Ben Gurion Airport <!--more--> before passengers rushed the cockpit, according to two senior U.S. officials and an Israeli source familiar with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>As ABC News has previously reported, Hamam Al-Hammani had been flagged as a security risk and was suspended as a trainee copilot at Oman Air in 2024 for possessing extremist materials, raising questions about how he was hired at FlyDubai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The alleged attacker on the FlyDubai flight to Israel intended to crash the plane into Tel Aviv&#8217;s Ben Gurion Airport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}