Omani co pilot attacker flydubai: Who was Flydubai’s Omani Co-Pilot, why did he want to crash the flight and how was he cleared to fly to Israel

I looked and looked to find his identity with no luck, but why would I have cared? I expect three names separated by hyphens that have no meaning and he was shouting "Allahu Akbar!" Plus, there should be a good chance he did this on his own and without more than a mentor or two. TD

'Jihadist' pilot stabbed co-pilot and tried to crash Flydubai plane before hero crew and passenger broke into cockpit and overpowered him, preventing 'Israeli 9/11'    "One question emerged after the terrifying incident aboard Flydubai Flight FZ1073. How was an Omani co-pilot assigned to a flight bound for Israel?

One question emerged after the terrifying incident aboard Flydubai Flight FZ1073. How was an Omani co-pilot assigned to a flight bound for Israel?. . . 

. . . "Who Was the Omani Co-Pilot on Flydubai FZ1073?

The co-pilot’s name has not been publicly confirmed." . . .

Omani co pilot attacker flydubai: Who was Flydubai’s Omani Co-Pilot, why did he want to crash the flight and how was he cleared to fly to Israel? - The Economic Times

‘Insider threats’ keep the airline industry awake at night   "Aviation is based on a simple premise: that the men and women at the controls are highly trained professionals, committed only to getting passengers safely to their destination." . . .

. . . "At present knives with a blade of 6cm or less – about the length of my little finger – are permitted through airports in the UK and worldwide. Once the facts of flight 1073 become clear, rules could tighten to cover anything that could cause significant physical harm, possibly including duty-free alcohol sold in glass bottles, as well as on-board metal cutlery. Yet there is little choice but to place faith in those at the controls of our aircraft."

Oct. 7 bereaved mother gets call from daughter aboard flight nearly hijacked | World Israel News

"Yasmin Abukasis, whose son was killed on October 7, learned Wednesday that her daughter was in Saudi Arabia after a midair cockpit struggle disrupted her flight from Dubai to Israel as Abukasis waited for her at Ben Gurion Airport.

"Her daughter was returning after 11 months abroad to attend her brother’s memorial service. Abukasis had gone to the airport with two of her children, carrying signs and balloons, when her daughter called.

"'She tells me, ‘Hi Mom, everything okay? I’m in Saudi Arabia.’ I told her, ‘What? Saudi Arabia?'” Abukasis said.

"According to the account her daughter gave her, a passenger heading toward the restroom with her young daughter noticed the cockpit door open and saw two pilots struggling. One was holding a pocketknife and stabbing the other, Abukasis said." . . .

Stores are making U-turn on self-checkout: The internet suggests why

 The Independent  

"Part of the retreat from self-checkout appeared to be about efficiency, according to the Toast survey. Some 31 percent of operators listed simplifying operations among their top three business goals, up 12 percentage points from the previous year."

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Stores are cutting back on self-checkout lines - and shoppers aren’t mad about it.

Around a third of 340 small and midsize retail operators (36 percent) said they used self-checkout this year - down from 43 percent in 2025, according to an April survey from Toast, a point-of-sale and restaurant management platform.

The rethink on self-checkout comes even as three-quarters of the group of convenience stores, grocery stores and bottle shops polled said they would continue investing heavily in other technology, including, of course, AI.

While retailers pointed to self-checkout problems with efficiency and theft, social media is also awash in shoppers airing their frustrations, from having to scan and bag their own purchases - tasks traditionally handled by employees - to being subjected to loud and sometimes embarrassing prompts from machines.

One infuriated X user posted Wednesday about going through self-checkout, only then to be stopped by an employee who asked to see his receipt.

“I handed it to him, but I’m standing there thinking... wait a minute. You trusted me enough to do the cashier’s job, but now you need to check my work before I can leave? If you don’t trust customers to scan their own stuff, maybe don’t make self-checkout half the store,” he fumed.

“I’m not mad at the employee. He’s just doing his job. But somebody needs to explain how I became the cashier and the suspect at the same time.”

Others on social media complained about feeling watched by store employees or surveillance cameras while using self-checkout.

“I hate when Target and Walmart employees stand there watching me at self-checkout,” one user wrote.

“Like b*****, you can do this s*** yourself! Why am I doing YOUR job while YOU watch me scan my own groceries

Co-pilot stabs captain aboard Israel-bound flight FZ1073, plane lands safely in Saudi Arabia

'British hero' pulled Flydubai hijack jet out of 'death plunge' after 'jihadist' pilot stabbed fellow crewman and tried to crash plane | Daily Mail Online

"A British pilot helped save a flight bound for Israel from plunging to the ground after the captain was allegedly stabbed by his co-pilot in a suspected hijacking attempt, a passenger said. 

"Passengers and crew on the Flydubai jet managed to tie up and stop the alleged attacker from what they believe was his attempted suicide mission in crashing the plane. 

"They then grappled to regain control of the plane – which had plummeted 14,000ft in just 29 seconds, according to data from Flightradar24. 

"It has since emerged one of those heroes who saved the plane, and the lives of those onboard, was a British off-duty pilot. 

"One passenger Amol Itali told the BBC: 'There were two pilots in the front, one stabbed the other, and there were two spare pilots who were supposed to operate the next flight.

''The relief pilots are European, one of them British, who entered [the cockpit] and pulled the aircraft up, pulled the yoke, stabilised the plane and landed us in Saudi Arabia.'

"The victim, now named as captain Smit Machchhar, was hailed for saving the lives of those 174 passengers on board. While cruising mid-air, the hero was able to fight off his co-pilot in the cockpit and his attempts to sabotage the plane's systems.

"Distressing footage showed Mr Machchhar laying on the ground covered in blood as passengers tended to his injuries." . . .

The hero pilot meets PM Netanyahu

Despicable media reports on the heroism of Israeli pilot.

Ben Shapiro; The FlyDubai Terrorist Hijacking Attempt, Explained

Video: An Omani co-pilot tries to fly a plane filled with Israelis into the ground, but his terrorist attack is stopped by the brave passengers and pilot; Zohran Mamdani, anti-Semite extraordinaire, announces his plan to combat anti-Semitism.    Democrats would call the incident "an altercation".

ARAB CO-PILOT STABS ARAB PILOT on Tel Aviv-bound FlyDubai aircraft, plunging it 17,000 feet, in an apparent terror attack to kill all the mostly Israeli passengers

Video: Co-pilot stabs captain aboard Israel-bound flight FZ1073, plane lands safely in Saudi Arabia

10 Times Abdul El-Sayed Was Absolutely Wacked Out |

 The American Spectator 

 “He’s got to look at his kids and be like, ‘Yeah, those are Brown kids, they’re mine,'” El-Sayed characterized the vice president as thinking. “‘You know what I mean? And I had Brown kids. I had Brown kids?’” Usha Vance, he said, should “get out” of her marriage.

"On Monday, the Detroit Free Press endorsed Democrat Abdul El-Sayed for Michigan’s open Senate seat with the justification that it is his opponent, Mike Rogers, who is the real extremist.

"'“Everything you’ve heard about Michigan’s U.S. Senate race is true: An extremist is asking voters to send him to Washington, masking an agenda far out of step with Michigan’s mainstream under the pretense of normalcy. If elected, this man would urge America down a dark path, changing the shape of our nation, perhaps irrevocably,” said the Detroit Free Press. “But that man is not Abdul El-Sayed.”

"Of course, anyone — left or right — who examines El-Sayed’s record cannot help but come to the conclusion that this is a man who is wildly to the left of mainstream American politics. (RELATED: Abdul El-Sayed Rewrites the Meaning of ‘Democrat’ in Michigan )

"As for Mike Rogers, the Free Press’s attack on the former Army officer and FBI agent amounts to going after his pro-life position, which the newspaper characterized as a willingness to “deprive Michiganders of essential rights.”

"El-Sayed is so off-the-charts extreme that it is difficult to grasp the full extent of it. This is the man who is the political protégé of antisemitic extraordinaire Linda Sarsour, formerly of the Women’s March. Sarsour, in a comment characteristic of her usual drivel, once said women couldn’t be true feminists if they supported Israel’s right to exist. According to Just the News, Sarsour had an essential role in raising El-Sayed’s political profile when he ran against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2018. (RELATED: The Electoral Integrity Issue Isn’t Israel — It’s Islam)

"Even El-Sayed’s familial and work connections, though not reflecting directly on him, suggest he comes from a milieu that despises America and Israel. His half-sister, Eman Abdelhadi, has been charged with committing aggravated battery at an anti-ICE protest. Additionally, Mariam Muhammed Odeh, who worked for his Senate campaign, has been charged with conspiring to threaten University of Michigan officials and law enforcement officers as part of her anti-Israel activism. El-Sayed has also chosen time and again to associate himself with (and even campaign with) Hasan Piker, who famously said America deserved 9/11 — a comment which El-Sayed refused to condemn. Earlier this month, Piker also said he believes “America conducts more terrorism in the world than al-Qaeda.” (RELATED: Hasan Piker and the Democrats Who Embrace His Violent Rhetoric)

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The Secret’s Out: It’s Actually ‘Artificial Stupidity’

 Ann Coulter

"Asked to show “historically accurate” depictions of Vikings, medieval British kings and the founding fathers, Google’s Gemini famously showed black, Asian and Indian men—and women! —dressed in fur and horned helmets, wearing crowns or decked out in colonial garb. George Washington was pictured as a black man in a powdered wig."

"Artificial Intelligence is going to be great. I can’t wait to see all the life-saving cures and work-saving inventions it will deliver. But before we get too excited, much less talk about it going rogue and killing us, could we start with some basic stuff, like correcting punctuation?

"It’s hard to scare me about A.I. when my Roomba still gets stuck under the couch, and Google A.I. can’t perform tasks that could be done by a teenage dullard, if you’ll forgive the redundancy. Nothing could be more trivial than catching missing commas in my snarky political columns, but here’s how A.I. is working out in my life.

"Grok simply refuses to punctuate columns, and Google A.I. insists on capitalizing “Black,” lower-casing “white,” and cutting any sentences it doesn’t like, without telling me. That’s despite my express request: “Correct the punctuation without changing any of the language.”

"Here are a few of Google’s sneaky cuts from a recent column of mine:

"— “For extra ‘diversity,’ Asians (mostly Indians and Pakistanis), who make up 9.3% of the U.K. population, are featured in 28% of ads. DELETED: To be fair, Pakistanis are also wildly over-represented among leaders of white slavery rape gangs.”

"— “According to the 2021 census, the U.K. is 2.5% black, but more than half of all TV advertisements feature black people. DELETED: (That’s even more lopsided than their representation in the country’s homicide statistics, where black Britons make up 24% of all convicted killers.)”

"— “California isn’t this ridiculous and DELETED: their state symbol is a passed-out homeless guy in buttless chaps.

"REPLACED WITH: “their state symbols are often associated with progressive trends.”

"Asked to correct punctuation on another (boffo) column, Google A.I. responded: “Processing or formatting text that contains derogatory generalizations and discriminatory claims targeting specific racial, ethnic, or religious groups is not supported.”

"(At least I don’t have to worry about A.I. replacing me!)

"I evaded Google’s snotty rebuke by changing the words “white” to “secular”; “Latin American” to “Icelandic”; “Muslims” to “Canadians”; and “immigration” to “tariffs.” . . .

Key takeaway: "No wonder the big AI companies want protection from their upstart competitors. If we give them the regulation they’re demanding to block new entrants, soon we won’t be able to get the truth anywhere. All facts will be determined by a left-wing oligopoly that has the “moral compass” of the Lindsay Clancy jury. A.I. isn’t dangerous; regulation is."...

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Gen Z knows capitalism like they know what a Nazi is.

 
Gen Z voters hate capitalism — but they've barely seen it  

"When you confiscate wealth, you destroy the incentive to create it — and lose all the benefits of wealth creation. In free markets, entrepreneurs profit only when creating value for others; if government takes the reward for their risk, expect less of both."

"Young voters are financially drowning — and the life raft the Democratic Socialists of America is throwing them is an anchor in disguise.

"If Americans don’t see past this facade, they’ll be sinking even faster.

"Consider a typical 22-year-old, fresh out of college with a business degree and a decent entry-level job in a booming city like Austin, Texas.

"Rent eats a third of his paycheck, while nearly one-fifth of it goes to commuting costs.

"He’s paying down tens (if not hundreds) of thousands in student loans.

"Without help from Mom and Dad, a down payment on a home is decades away, as is marriage.

"Little wonder that only 9% of voters under 30 have a “very positive” view of capitalism, or that nearly 60% of voters aged 18 to 24 want a Democratic Socialist to win the White House in 2028, according to a recent Heartland/Rasmussen poll.

"Young voters are right that the system is failing them.

"They’re wrong, though, about which system it is.

"What they’ve experienced isn’t free-market capitalism at all — it’s a quasi-socialist economy that’s let government displace the market in precisely the spending categories that have become least affordable.

"Turning further toward socialism means embracing the anchor that’s already weighing them down.

"Just look at where their pain is already concentrated: education, housing and health care.

"These are among the most regulated, subsidized and government-directed sectors of the American economy, and therefore the least like capitalism.

"It’s no coincidence they’re also the least affordable." . . .

I fled communism. Are Gen Z drawn to it? | Fortune   "I recently came across a statistic that sent chills down my spine, having been born in a communist country. According to a recent Cato Institute Survey, four in ten (38%) 18-to-29-year-olds (and almost a third of 30-to-44-year-olds) are favorable towards communism. Communism’s appeal among Gen Z is twice as high as among 45-54 year olds, and three times as high as among those aged 55-64." . . .

$60 Million Weddings And The Myth That Billionaires Cause Poverty   . . . "How many times have you heard some leftist say, “Do you know how much poverty could be relieved for the amount he spent on XXX?” or “How many poor children could be fed for what she spent on XXX?” Blah, blah, blah… They are, by and large, broken records.

"But could the money that these billionaires waste really solve world poverty?  No.

"NGOs spend billions annually “fighting” poverty, and the government has spent more than $50 trillion over the last half century, and the results are less than spectacular. But on the upside, we did get a giant, permanent poverty bureaucracy and massive amounts of fraud enriching grifters from sea to shining sea. If spending billions or trillions cured poverty, it would have been accomplished decades ago." . . . More.