FlyDubai incident 30/9

[drron]

A few stuff ups from Fly Dubai. First not doing any security checks on the co pilot. Sacked from Oman Air for being radicalised online.
Second putting an Omani as pilot on a flight to Israel. Oman pilots are on Israel’s list banning them from flying to Israel.
Of course this means a failure on Israel’s part not picking up that an Omani was a pilot on this flight to Israel.

 

[Brissy1]

Apparently pilots flying into Israel are required to have passports from countries with diplomatic relations with Israel.

Oman does dot have Diplomatic relations with Israel

So I presume he also has a passport from elsewhere, easily obtained legally, even an EU one eg via Portugal golden visa pathway.
Adding: and trail of how he got one would very interesting

 

[Quickstatus]

How did the rogue pilot get a pocketknife on board in the first place?

Is there ordinarily some tools in the coughpit that could have been used as a weapon perhaps?

The UAE attorney general now says the Flight deck Crash axe was used instead of a knife
Airbus have them as well
The grey bit is the housing.



But apparently they look like this unsheathed

 

[nancypants]

We may see media seeking comment from him more often following the death of Geoffrey Thomas, a popular go-to, earlier this year.

TIL

 

[Seat0B]

Is anyone else struggling listening to the ABC reporting on this when they keep referring to both pilots as "co-pilots" in the sense of being colleagues? I keep hearing that "a co-pilot attacked his co-pilot" or "a pilot attacked his co-pilot" and it is doing my head in trying to work out who was the attacker and who was the attacked. Why do they not just say Captain and Co-pilot when reporting on this very concerning incident - "the Co-pilot attacked the Captain"?

 

[AuSammy]

So of the yet to be proven allegations flying around are disturbing. Such as “the co-pilot intended to repeat 9-11 into some Israeli buildings.”

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Is anyone else struggling listening to the ABC reporting on this when they keep referring to both pilots as "co-pilots" in the sense of being colleagues? I keep hearing that "a co-pilot attacked his co-pilot" or "a pilot attacked his co-pilot" and it is doing my head in trying to work out who was the attacker and who was the attacked. Why do they not just say Captain and Co-pilot when reporting on this very concerning incident - "the Co-pilot attacked the Captain"?

I guess it’s just the journalist who doesn’t understand that ‘co-pilot’ is a specific term, with a specific meaning.

If they’ve picked the news up off the wires they probably assumed a ‘co-pilot’ was in fact that… ‘co-piloting’ with the other crew member.

If you knew nothing about aviation i guess it’s a pretty easy mistake to make.

 

[AuSammy]

Is anyone else struggling listening to the ABC reporting on this when they keep referring to both pilots as "co-pilots" in the sense of being colleagues? I keep hearing that "a co-pilot attacked his co-pilot" or "a pilot attacked his co-pilot" and it is doing my head in trying to work out who was the attacker and who was the attacked. Why do they not just say Captain and Co-pilot when reporting on this very concerning incident - "the Co-pilot attacked the Captain"?

Unfortunately its the abysmal standard of current journalism resourcing, the copying of other people’s reports, reporters that are not true journalists, and the use of AI that replicates this carp.

After a number of recent examples including those going to the “umpire” and the latest shockingly bad so called “expose” into BYD cars with a total click bait sinophobic and deliberately misleading piece similar to the “yellow peril” beatups of decades ago has left me with no alternative but to sanity and cross check what the ABC produce.

It is certainly not the ABC I grew up with that I could trust to provide accurate, well researched and unbiased information.

 

[nancypants]

Is anyone else struggling listening to the ABC reporting on this when they keep referring to both pilots as "co-pilots" in the sense of being colleagues? I keep hearing that "a co-pilot attacked his co-pilot" or "a pilot attacked his co-pilot" and it is doing my head in trying to work out who was the attacker and who was the attacked. Why do they not just say Captain and Co-pilot when reporting on this very concerning incident - "the Co-pilot attacked the Captain"?

I have a similar desire to throw a brick through the TV screen every time I hear that someone has died “from suspected cardiac arrest”.

Perils of understanding even mildly technical language I suppose

 

[jb747]

Airbus have them as well

They all have them.

 

[Quickstatus]

They all have them.

Apparently the rules allow a axe or crowbar

Is anyone else struggling listening to the ABC reporting

journalists are not good at even slightly technical stuff.