The FlyDubai co-pilot who nearly crashed a Tel Aviv-bound flight with 182 people aboard was barred from flying by his native Oman.

“It is important that we allow this process to establish the facts,” said flydubai CEO Ghaith Al Ghaith.

Hamam Alhammami, an Omani citizen born in the UAE to an Omani father and Syrian mother, was reportedly barred from flying by his native Oman over concerns that he had adopted extremist views.

The Omani co-pilot accused of attacking the captain aboard a Flydubai flight on September 30 had been barred from flying in his country for security reasons. Several media outlets reported that Omani…

Authorities in the United Arab Emirates are investigating the flydubai incident and have yet to determine the assailant's motive.

The flydubai co-pilot accused of attacking the captain was barred from flying in Oman over concerns about extremist views. Read more at straitstimes.com.

FlyDubai co-pilot barred by Oman over extremism concerns amid a near-crash attack affecting West Asia’s travel security and UAE-Israel flight suspensions.

The United Arab Emirates says that the co-pilot on a FlyDubai flight that nearly crashed with 182 people on board attacked the captain with the cockpit’s crash axe in a “terrorist attack.”.

The flydubai co-pilot, identified as Hamam al-Hammami, attacked Indian captain Smit Machchhar earlier this week on an Israel-bound flight in an apparent attempt to take over the aircraft and crash it.