Omani Hamam al-Hammami co-pilot tries to crash Flydubai flight FZ1073 to Israel, Terrorist Cholo Abdi Abdullah same plan for Delta flight to Atlanta

Omani Muslim terrorist co-pilot Hamam al-Hammami tries to take down Flydubai's flight FZ1073 a Boeing 737 Max jet with 174 people on board headed to Israel, with PM Netanyahu saying "almost all" passengers were Israeli. Hamam Hammami officials say was a radical Islamist with a history of showing support for and links to al-Qaeda. Flydubai's flight FZ1073 took off from Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirates at 03:05 GMT (07:05 local time) en route to Ben-Gurion Airport in Israel. According to ABC, the suspect was “cooperating” with investigators, and had suggested to them that he intended to crash the plane in Israel. Quoting sources briefed on the investigation, ABC reported: “Hamam al-Hammami has indicated that his intent was to crash the aircraft in Israel.” According to a CNN report, a LinkedIn profile bearing al-Hammami's name showed that he worked for Oman Air for about seven years before leaving the airline in February 2025. The profile stated that he later joined Royal Air Maroc in June 2025 and remained there until January 2026.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the alleged attacker Hamam al-Hammami in the Flydubai incident “underwent Islamist radical indoctrination.” Investigators across the Middle East are trying to find out why the pilot allegedly attacked his captain and tried to seize control of a Dubai-to-Tel Aviv flight. “That appears to be something we’re gathering from his personal information,” Netanyahu told Fox News on Thursday 10/01. Al-Qaeda's "Inspire" magazine has for years explicitly targeted aviation lone-wolf attacks and specifically seeking or instructing pilots to crash airliners.

ABC News; The co-pilot of the FlyDubai plane who allegedly attacked the plane's captain and attempted to crash a flight bound for Israel on Wednesday is Hamam al-Hammami an Omani national who was previously suspended by Oman Air after being identified as a security risk, according to senior intelligence and law enforcement officials. The stabbed pilot, identified as Indian national Capt Smit Machchhar, was taken to hospital after the flight landed and later called a "hero" by the Israeli prime minister. Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has called the incident an "attempted jihadist terror attack" He said an Israeli passenger told him "the plane went into a spin and began to descend" before the passenger and a crew member broke into the cockpit and overpowered the "pilot who had carried out the stabbing". He was born in the United Arab Emirates to an Omani father and Syrian mother and has spent several years of his life in the UAE, one of the sources added.

The Flydubai's flight FZ1073 was diverted to Tabuk Airport in northwestern Saudi Arabia and touched down at 06:58, according to location data. The stabbed pilot, who is in a stable condition according to the Indian embassy in Saudi Arabia, was later identified as Indian national Capt Smit Machchhar.

Paying tribute to Machchhar, Netanyahu hailed him as a "true hero" and said "he saved the lives of 174 people, including Israeli citizens and other nationals". Zvika Meness, another passenger, told Israeli public broadcaster Kan News that he and other passengers tied the attacker up "with his own zip ties and with the multimedia headphones".

12/22/2025 ATLANTA — A man who federal authorities said planned to hijack a commercial airplane and crash it into Atlanta's tallest skyscraper was sentenced to two consecutive life terms in federal prison, prosecutors announced. Cholo Abdi Abdullah, an al-Shabaab operative, was sentenced after a jury convicted him in November of conspiring to carry out a 9/11-style terrorist attack targeting the United States. Prosecutors said terrorist Cholo Abdi Abdullah intended to hijack a Delta airliner and crash into the Bank of America Plaza building in Atlanta as part of the plot.

Radical jihadist propaganda publications—most notably Al-Qaeda's "Inspire" magazine—have explicitly targeted aviation. In multiple issues published over the years, the magazine has included articles encouraging lone-wolf attacks and specifically seeking or instructing pilots and individuals to target commercial aircraft, either by smuggling explosives aboard or by weaponizing planes.

12/20/2025 DOJ PRESS RELEASE; Commercial Pilot and Terrorist Cholo Abdi Abdullah was sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison following his conviction for multiple crimes that included conspiring to provide material support to the foreign terrorist organization al-Shabaab, and conspiring to murder U.S. nationals, commit aircraft piracy, destroy aircraft, and commit acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries, he had a commercial pilots license from the USA. Terrorist Cholo Abdi Abdullah has been convicted in 9/11 style plot to hijack Delta plane and fly into tallest building in Atlanta GA the Bank of America Plaza at 600 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA 30308. He planned to hijack a plane out of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta (ATL) airport and crash it into the Bank of America Plaza skyscraper. His number one idea was that “for a very successful mission, we need a pilot in the cockpit (which means I should apply for the airlines).”

*NOTE; Palestinian and Libyan Muslim terrorists mastered the craft of hijacking and blowing up civilian passenger airliners, i.e. "Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie". Al-Qaeda Muslim terrorists fine tuned the art of hijacking civislian passenger airliners and used them kamikaze style killing many more innocent civilians on the ground. I have been aware for some many years that Muslim terrorists have continued to plan a massive terror attack using 10 to 12 international civilian passenger airliners with Muslim vetted pilots targeting multiple cities around the USA kamikaze style killing many more innocent civilians on the ground, it was and is called the Bojinka plot. Now with the current hijack attempt of Flydubai's flight FZ1073 a Boeing 737 Max jet by a vetted Muslim pilot to do the same, it appears the plot still has legs.

 

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