The name of the FlyDubai co-pilot who attacked the captain of the plane flying to Tel Aviv has become known
He is 29-year-old Hamam Al-Hamami. He is an Omani citizen.
The co-pilot of the FlyDubai airline plane, who on September 30 allegedly attacked a colleague and tried to provoke an aviation disaster, is 29-year-old Hamam Al-Hamami, reports ABC News, citing sources.
He is an Omani citizen. According to one CNN source, Al-Hamami was born in the United Arab Emirates to an Omani father and a Syrian mother and lived there for several years.
The LinkedIn profile under the name Hamam Al-Hamami indicated that he worked for Oman Air for seven years (resigned in February 2025), after which he moved to Royal Air Maroc in June 2025 and left it in January 2026. There was no mention of flydubai on the page. One source confirmed that this profile belonged to the FlyDubai pilot involved in the incident. The profile has now been deleted, the channel notes.
In 2024, extremist materials were found in Al-Hamami, who was undergoing training as a co-pilot for Oman Air.
According to the channel's interlocutors, he was allowed to continue working for the airline in an administrative position. It is assumed that he was suspended from flights due to concerns about his extremist views.
It is now being investigated how the alleged attacker was later allowed to fly as a Flydubai pilot and ended up in the cockpit of a plane flying to Israel as a co-pilot.
On Thursday, Al-Hamami was transferred from Saudi Arabia to the UAE. He confessed to intending to crash the plane in Israel.
The incident on board the Dubai — Tel Aviv flight occurred on September 30. Approximately two hours after the start of the flight, the plane sharply lost more than 17,000 feet, or about 5.2 kilometers, in altitude.
One of the passengers, who was going to the restroom with her small daughter, heard a noise in the cockpit and drew the attention of other passengers and crew members to it. It soon became clear that a struggle was taking place in the cockpit.
Passengers tried to enter the cockpit, but initially failed. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, the cockpit access procedure was changed so that the door could only be opened from the inside.
As the plane continued to lose altitude, the door suddenly opened. Several Israeli passengers managed to neutralize the co-pilot, who attacked the captain with a knife and, according to eyewitnesses, tried to damage the plane's control panel.
After this, passengers, along with a pilot who was on board, managed to stabilize the plane and land it at Tabuk Airport in northwestern Saudi Arabia. The injured pilot, Smith Machhar, was initially taken to Tabuk hospital and then transferred by air ambulance to Abu Dhabi.
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