Transcript [00:00] It has been almost 2 weeks since the [00:02] attempted hijacking of Fly Dubai flight [00:04] FZ1073 [00:06] from Dubai to Tel Aviv. You know, air [00:09] travel changed massively after the 9/11 [00:11] attacks in 2001. And as the [00:14] investigation into this hijacking event [00:16] continues, it may be that this will also [00:18] become a turning point in the way public [00:20] air travel is conducted. In 2020, Hamami [00:24] was hired by Omani Air [music] [00:26] and worked there for 4 years up until [00:28] 2024. He started out as a traininee [00:30] pilot and this is where it gets really [00:33] crazy because in 2024 he was transferred [00:35] to a desk job. Why? Because of concerns [00:38] that he was becoming radicalized based [00:41] on his possession of extremist materials [00:43] in anti-semitic social media posts. It [00:47] would seem that once Hamami realized he [00:49] wouldn't be able to carry out an [00:50] aircraft terror attack with Omani Air, [00:53] he quit the company and decided to try [00:55] to get back into flying with someone [00:57] else. He found a position first at Royal [01:00] Air Moroc for a brief period in 2025 and [01:03] then in January of this year. He was [01:05] hired by Fly Dubai. Apparently, the [01:09] airline uh industry was seeing a [01:11] shortage of pilots in early 2026 and as [01:14] a result, Fly Dubai picked up a bunch of [01:16] pilots that were available. Also this [01:18] year, Hamami flew in and out of Tel Aviv [01:21] on multiple occasions to familiarize [01:23] himself with the route and plan exactly [01:25] where he wanted to crash his plane. [01:28] There's another massive apparent [01:29] breakdown in Israel's vetting of pilots [01:31] who are allowed [music] into their [01:32] airspace. Up until 2021, the Sheen Bet, [01:35] which is Israel's security agency, it's [01:37] their version of the FBI, was [01:39] responsible for vetting pilots and [01:41] deciding who could fly commercial planes [01:43] into Israel. But in 2021, this [01:45] jurisdiction was handed over to the [01:46] Ministry of Transportation, who assigned [01:49] the job to a department with only three [01:51] employees. There's a lot of questions [01:53] that need to be asked in the wake of an [01:54] event like this, and I'm sure it makes a [01:56] lot of people want to know more about [01:57] the pilots and airlines that they choose [01:59] to fly with. At the very least, if a [02:01] pilot is suspended with one airline for [02:03] being too radical or extremist, they [02:05] should be flagged as a warning to other [02:07] airlines so they can't just apply or [02:09] reapply to fly with someone else.
