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Questions continue to swirl about the FlyDubai co-pilot who allegedly attacked the captain and tried to crash a packed flight from Dubai to Israel.
The United Arab Emirates' attorney general on Saturday formally classified the midair incident aboard Flydubai flight FZ1073 as a terrorist act, confirming the co-pilot attempted to commit terrorism during the Wednesday flight diversion to Saudi Arabia.
Oman reportedly detected Hamam al-Hamami’s radicalization but issued no international warning, Flydubai checked his criminal record but not extremist links, and Israeli authorities never received the crew list before a flight investigators say he intended to crash at Ben Gurion Airport