FlyDubai Terror Plot: The Attack That Could Have Been Catastrophic
Imagine what the outcome of this terror attack might have been like.
We are learning more about the attempted 9/11-style plane hijacking and suicide mission on the flydubai plane heading to Israel. The miraculous outcome of what was intended to be a catastrophic terror attack is still much in the news, and more information is still forthcoming — with more to follow.
Here is some of the new news. One ominous — but not unexpected — development is that the jihadists are calling for more such attacks. As a New York Post article states:
Al Qaeda called for copycat attacks on Americans and Israeli airliners in a vile post referencing 9/11 and praising the Dubai flight hijacker — whose social media accounts shared photos of one of the terror group’s leaders. The call appeared to come Friday in the latest edition of al-Bayan, a weekly publication launched in July by pro-Al Qaeda supporters, which invoked both the Sept. 11 attacks and Wednesday’s attempted takeover of Flydubai Flight FZ1073.
“The war isn’t over yet — planes carrying Zionists, Americans and all the other infidels fighting against Islam are still hovering in the skies and can be targeted, as happened on September 11th and 30th,” the Arabic-language article threatened. The article included an image of a plane crashing into the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001, alongside an image referencing Wednesday’s attack on the Dubai-to-Tel Aviv flight.
“America and the Zionists have far more enemies today than before,” the article said. “Perhaps a man who does not believe in God will target them and his operation will ultimately benefit Islam.” It added: “The day will come when the empire of evil America will end.”
And we now know the name of the attacker and more about his evil past. As one report states:
The FlyDubai co-pilot accused of attacking a captain on a Tel Aviv-bound flight earlier this week allegedly used the cockpit’s “crash axe” in the attack and has been identified as a 29-year-old Omani national. The co-pilot has been identified as Hamam al-Hammami, a Middle Eastern source told Fox News, adding that he was barred from flying with Oman Air — his country’s airline — in 2024 due to concerns about extremist views. The source also said authorities believe the co-pilot moved to Dubai later that year.
The United Arab Emirates, which is leading the investigation into the attack on FlyDubai Flight 1073, said the co-pilot attacked Capt. Smit Machchhar with the cockpit’s crash axe, incapacitating him and causing the aircraft to plummet before passengers on board seized control of the plane.
The source said al-Hammami spent a significant part of his life outside Oman, including time living with his mother, who is from Syria. According to the source, FlyDubai did not check with Oman Air about al-Hammami before hiring him.
A Gulf diplomat told The Associated Press that investigators are working to determine whether al-Hammami acted as a “lone wolf or has any connection with any extremist groups.” The AP separately reported that Oman had barred al-Hammami from flying over concerns he had adopted extremist views.
A Terror Plot With Far Greater Ambitions
One Indian commentator, Baba Banaras, said this about his real aims:
The terrorist pilot, Mohammed Hamam Al-Hammami, was not planning merely to crash the Israel-bound FlyDubai flight and kill 180 people, the majority of whom were Jews. His plan was bigger. He wanted to crash the plane into a high-rise skyscraper in Tel Aviv or the Burj Khalifa in Dubai and kill as many non-Muslims as possible.
According to intelligence sources, he was in contact with some radical elements in Iran, Pakistan, Syria, and Turkey. He was a big fan of Osama bin Laden, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and Pakistan-based UN-designated terrorist Maulana Masood Azhar. He visited Pakistan in August and Turkey in May. He was also a supporter of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and London Mayor Sadiq Khan.
He was fired by Oman Air in 2024–2025 for regularly browsing extremist websites and expressing support for the Islamic State, jihad, and anti-non-Muslim sentiments during conversations with colleagues.
Also of concern is the fact that some reports are saying al-Hammami was a student at an Australian university:
Federal police and ASIO are investigating the co-pilot who allegedly tried to hijack an Israel-bound flight over his time in Australia after it was revealed he studied engineering at a local university. Multiple international media outlets have identified the co-pilot as Hammam al-Hammami, as more details emerge about his life after Wednesday’s terrifying Flydubai flight.
Also being examined are al-Hammami’s motives, whether he had been radicalised and whether he was acting as part of a plot orchestrated by Iran. A LinkedIn profile seen by CNN and US network ABC before it was deleted said that al-Hammami had previously studied engineering at an Australian university. The Australian Financial Review has not been able to independently verify the claim and the university has not been named publicly.
The university declined to comment because of the investigation, referring inquiries to the Australian Federal Police. The Federal Police said in a statement that the Victorian Joint Counter Terrorism Team, made up of the AFP, Victoria Police and ASIO, were investigating the man’s links to Australia.
The Captain Who Refused To Give Up
As for the pilot who heroically withstood the Islamic jihadist:
The hero captain at the centre of the attempted hijacking of an Israel-bound flight has spoken out for the first time. Smit Machchhar, who is an Indian national, recounted the moment he fought off his co-pilot, who stabbed him in the head and arm at the start of his hijack attempt on Wednesday.
“In that moment, I was fighting for my life, but I knew I couldn’t let my passengers down,” Mr Machchhar told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a video call shared to YouTube. “I was acting on survival instincts, I had to give that one last push to open the door,” he said, speaking in his mother tongue…
The hijack attempt started about 2.5 hours into the flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv. “And I knew in that moment — one last push, Smit. Just do it. The door is right there,” he recalled. “And even at that time, he was beating me up.” Mr Machchhar reportedly unlocked the door to the cockpit, to allow passengers to enter and take down the hijacker.
“And then I just opened it… and then everybody came,” he said. “I was doing this for my life, but at the same time, I knew that I couldn’t let everybody else die.”
Further Commentary
Much has already been said about this terrible event. Many helpful remarks have been made — here are just some of them:
Douglas Murray: What happened in the skies above Saudi Arabia on Wednesday morning stands as a metaphor for three years of war. The Israelis saw an existential threat, took matters into their own hands, and decided their own course. The rest of the West will have to decide whether it will follow the Israeli model or let its own future be dictated by terror and the hijacking of its entire society.
Joey Mannarino: Muslims just tried crashing a plane again. This time, it was the pilot doing it. And I’m supposed to want this in my country for what reason exactly?
Bill Maher: The media is always a little reluctant to call it terrorism when it’s obviously terrorism. The original reporting was the two pilots had an altercation. Yeah, they had a little argument. ‘I think we should crash the plane. You don’t.’ Agree to disagree.
Noa Tishby: Israelis knew exactly what this was the moment it started. Hijacking has been the weapon of choice for jihadist terrorists for decades, and the passengers on that flight didn’t wait for anyone to explain it to them. They fought back. And here’s the thing people keep missing. Terrorism isn’t the goal, it’s the strategy. The goal is what they’ve been telling us out loud for years, which is radical Islamism taking over the world. Israel and the Jews are just first in line. The rest of the world is next.
Dan Burmawi: The Muslim terrorist who tried to crash FlyDubai and kill 180 Jews was not radicalised; he was simply a faithful Muslim. You need to understand that, in Islam, non-Muslim life has no value. Stop projecting your own secularised Judeo-Christian worldview onto other cultures. What you consider radicalism is simply being devout in Islam. When you follow a prophet who literally beheaded an entire tribe because the leaders of that tribe were falsely accused of betraying Muhammad, then it is virtuous for you to crash a flight full of civilians because they belong to a country that rejected Islamic sovereignty.
Amy Mek: Dear Political Leaders, The Omani FlyDubai co-pilot who stabbed Captain Smit Machchhar and tried to crash a plane full of Israelis was not some inexplicable “extremist.” He was a practising Muslim who prayed constantly and refused to shake hands with women — the ordinary Sharia line on non-mahram contact. Colleagues noticed. The airline still put him in the cockpit on a flight to Tel Aviv. After 9/11, are we still forbidden to ask whether devout Muslim pilots are a screening problem, or does the next dive have to finish the job first?
Brother Rachid: The Omani co-pilot told Captain Smit Machchhar he wanted to pray. He stood behind him. The Indian captain looked away out of respect. Minutes later, he took a blow to the back of the head. Lied. Betrayed. Attacked the man sitting next to him. From his side, none of that is a contradiction. It is the doctrine, this is how they think: War against the infidel permits lying. This was war, and the passengers were the target. War is deceit. Deceiving a coworker is allowed. In the end, he is only a kafir headed for hell. The captain’s blood is halal. To reach the Jews, he had to be removed, and he was not a Muslim anyway. A dua for martyrdom can be said first. He probably said it. Killing Jews, enemies of Allah, is halal, and a full plane means many at once. Paradise is immediate. Sins forgiven. The crown of dignity. Intercession for 70 relatives. Seventy-two virgins. The highest place in Janna. No torment of the grave. Then the celebration across the Muslim world: a brave hero who struck the Jews. If we do not understand this mentality, we cannot defeat it. Dismiss the ideology, and we lose.
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Republished with thanks to CultureWatch. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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Thanks Bill ..i think greater security checks re cabin crews and pilots needed worldwide ..and flight travel ..will have to change
I think the whole western world needs to wake up, Islam is evil, God is LOVE. Say no more, that’s it in a nutshell.
Thank you Bill. This is a very comprehensive and needed article about this story of Gods miraculous intervention!
Yes correct Stephen.
Bill, I agree with Stephen Lewin with one breath, but with another, I am concerned that his response is in fact an admission of defeat. Inflicting terror on us is the aim and a ‘tightening’ of security signals that ‘fear’ has been delivered worldwide. For me I think the ‘locked door’ protocols need to be reviewed. In the simple world the locked door was designed to keep hijackers out, but if they are already in the cockpit, what is they are the captain, then keeping the cockpit off limits is the last thing we want. What about video surveillance of the cockpit that cabin crew can access as well as ground control. Then give the ground and the cabin crew the ability to open the door.
Thanks Maureen and Warwick.
Thanks for that Jim.
DEBUNKING THE ‘FLYDUBAI’ CONSPIRITARDS 🤡
(Mark Rowley on X)
1. “How did he get a weapon onboard?”
The Fact: He didn’t sneak a knife past security. The official UAE investigation report confirmed the co-pilot used the cockpit’s own crash axe. By international law, a crash axe is a mandatory piece of emergency equipment standard-stored inside the cockpit. He simply reached over and grabbed the plane’s own tool to launch the attack.
2. “Why did a plumber take control and not the 2 pilots?”
The Fact: This is completely scrambling the timeline. When the bleeding captain unlocked the door, passengers rushed in to wrestle the attacker. Passenger Yaniv Hayoun (the plumber) saw the plane diving, lunged forward, and pulled back on the yoke to level the aircraft based on what he’d seen on Air Crash Investigation. The two deadheading reserve pilots in the cabin then immediately entered the flight deck, assumed formal control of the instruments, and safely navigated the aircraft to Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.
3. “How did the Capt open the door while being stabbed?”
The Fact: He didn’t casually stand up and twist a mechanical doorknob. Captain Smit Machchhar explicitly stated in his interview that he was on the floor bleeding when he realised the plane was plunging. Knowing lives were at stake, he gathered his strength for one final push to hit the electronic door override release switch right next to the seat console, unlocking it so the cabin crew and passengers could rush in.
4. “Where are the oxygen masks?”
The Fact: This is an embarrassing failure of basic systems knowledge. Emergency oxygen masks are triggered strictly by cabin barometric pressure, not by pitch, dives, or sudden altitude drops. Because the fuselage was perfectly intact, the cabin never lost air density or pressure. The aircraft computer had absolutely zero mechanical reason to deploy the masks.
5. “Why was he speaking English to Bibi / in bloody clothes?”
The Fact: The plumber, Yaniv Hayoun, is an Israeli citizen. When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called him to thank him for saving the flight, they spoke in Hebrew, not English. As for the blood-soaked shirt, he spent hours being interviewed by Saudi security and medical teams at Tabuk Airport immediately after landing. He was a passenger in transit who had just wrestled a bleeding attacker in a cockpit—he didn’t have a fresh change of clothes packed in his carry-on bag.
6. “Why were all the screens off?”
The Fact: Flydubai is a low-cost carrier. A massive portion of their economy cabins don’t even feature seatback entertainment screens, or they are entirely deactivated behind a corporate paywall unless a passenger pays to unlock them. Even on aircraft with screens, when a commercial plane undergoes a violent, uncommanded 14,000-foot altitude plunge, the aircraft’s automated electrical computers instantly initiate load-shedding. The plane immediately cuts power to all non-essential luxury systems (like passenger TVs, galley ovens, and seat outlets) to ensure 100% of the electrical grid is dedicated strictly to the cockpit displays, flight instruments, and backup hydraulic pumps keeping the plane from breaking apart.
OTHER DEBUNKED FALLACIES
* The ‘Unbreakable’ Door: Nobody broke it down. The official investigation logs prove that the hero captain, Smit Machchhar, manually hit the electronic cockpit override switch to unlock the door from the inside so passengers could rush in and save his life.
* The ‘Spare Pilots’ Fail: Off-duty flight crew traveling as passengers is a daily industry routine called ‘deadheading.’ Repositioning reserve crews to major hubs like Tel Aviv happens every single day. They didn’t stage a fight; they stepped in to land the plane after regular passengers restrained the attacker.
* The Fictional “Secret Meeting”: There was no secret meeting to plot a fake hijacking. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did travel to the UAE, but investigative reporting by outlets like Haaretz confirmed the meeting was a political push regarding regional tensions with Iran and managing political damage over leaks ahead of the upcoming election. The idea that a prime minister would fly to a foreign nation to coordinate the stabbing of an Indian pilot by an Omani national on a commercial aircraft is a total fairytale.
* The Nosedive Myth: The plane did not go into a vertical, structural “nosedive” that would rip the wings off. It was a chaotic, high-speed altitude drop during a manual struggle over the flight sticks, which the aircraft’s aerodynamic limits are built to withstand.
* The “Plummeting Tin Can” Physics Failure: The passengers weren’t casually strolling. The aircraft did experience a sudden, terrifying altitude drop when the attacker grabbed the controls, plunging thousands of feet in less than a minute. However, an emergency descent creates high G-forces and immense chaos, not zero gravity. Passengers (including an off-duty plumber and dentist) frantically lunged forward, crawled, and pushed their way through the released door to put the attacker in a chokehold.
* The Election Context: While Israel’s Knesset elections are indeed taking place on October 27 and the political climate is highly volatile, using a real political date to claim a mid-air terrorist attack over Saudi Arabia was a staged performance is a classic logical fallacy.
* The Tracking Codes: The plane never ‘vanished’ from tracking. Radar data explicitly logged the cockpit transponder switching from emergency code 7700 to hijack code 7500 during the struggle. That’s why Saudi air traffic control immediately cleared the plane to drop altitude and land at the nearest runway in Tabuk.
THE WATER CUP
* The Sealed Cup Self-Own: Flydubai, Emirates, and most international airlines serve individual water in pre-packaged, heat-sealed plastic tubs. The cup literally has a clear plastic lid on it. It couldn’t spill or splash during a descent even if it wanted to because it’s airtight.
* The Fluid Mechanics Fail: Even if it were open, the passenger video was filmed after the backup pilots regained control, leveled the plane, and stabilised the flight path. Liquid doesn’t stay permanently sloshing and swirling in a cup forever just because a vehicle dropped altitude minutes prior. Gravity settles it back down the millisecond the forces equalise.
THE COCKPIT DOOR OPENING DIRECTION
The Physics of Flight: Cockpit Doors Open INWARD
On the Boeing 737 (including the MAX 8 involved in the Flydubai incident), the reinforced security flight deck door is mechanically hinged to open inward, swinging forward into the cockpit itself, not backward into the passenger cabin.
Why They Are Engineered That Way: If the main passenger cabin experiences a sudden drop in air pressure (depressurisation), the massive pressure differential will push the cockpit door forward. Because it opens inward, it can swing forward onto its decompression panels to instantly equalise the air pressure between both compartments, protecting the plane’s structural integrity. If it opened into the cabin, it would get jammed shut by the pressure.
Forced Entry Protection: It makes it significantly harder for an attacker in the passenger cabin to force their way in. Pushing against a door that slams shut into a solid, reinforced metal frame is much more secure than a door that could be pulled open or kicked down into the aisle.
The Physical Block Explained: Because the door physically swings forward into the cockpit, the wounded captain (who was sitting or lying on the flight deck floor right next to the pedestal console) was physically occupying the exact space the door needed to swing into.
When the plumber and cabin crew pushed the door from the cabin side, they were physically pushing the door into the cockpit, meaning they had to carefully nudge against the space where the captain was lying to gain full entry.
💥💥 THE ‘CONSPIRACY’ DESTROYER – THE TRANSPONDER LOGS 💥💣🔥
The Official Transponder Log Timeline (30 Sept 2026): Recorded second-by-second microsecond timestamps.
– 03:05 UTC: Flight FZ1073 departs Dubai on its regularly scheduled route to Tel Aviv, climbing smoothly to a cruising altitude of 34,000 feet.
– 05:21 UTC: The cockpit attack begins. The automated tracking data logs the Boeing 737 MAX 8 undergoing violent altitude oscillations—uncontrolled diving, a sharp ascent, and a second steep plunge down to 15,000 feet within a two-minute window.
– 05:28:48 UTC: SQUAWK 7700 ACTIVATED. The transponder automatically broadcasts code 7700 along the Saudi-Jordanian border, alerting global radar stations to a critical general emergency.
– 05:35:00 UTC: SQUAWK 7500 ACTIVATED. The code explicitly flips to 7500—the internationally standardised code for “Unlawful Interference / Hijacking”. This occurs the exact microsecond the bleeding captain manages to reach the console controls during the struggle.
– 05:40 UTC: The aircraft loops away from Jordanian airspace and heads southwest toward Saudi Arabia as the off-duty deadheading crew takes structural control of the flight sticks.
– 06:58 UTC: The plane switches back to code 7700 for airport priority and lands safely under emergency conditions at Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Airport in Tabuk.
The tracking codes accurately broadcast the panic inside that cockpit to regional radar centers in real-time, which is why air traffic control immediately cleared the plane for an emergency landing in Tabuk. The radar metrics are fully on public record.
Aviation transponder logs completely destroy any “false flag” or “staged” conspiracy theory because a transponder doesn’t just broadcast information into an empty void, it actively communicates with an entire web of global defense networks, foreign governments, and civilian tracking infrastructure simultaneously.
The tracking logs are an undeniable, automated web of international defense and civilian metrics.
To claim anything was faked is to claim three separate military networks and thousands of private citizens were coordinated to stage a radio signal.
In short, real-time aviation tracking data doesn’t care about conspiritard feelings or narratives.
WOW!