{"id":24008,"date":"2026-10-05T16:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T11:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=24008"},"modified":"2026-10-05T16:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T11:18:18","slug":"uae-has-decided-on-death-penalty-for-flydubai-co-pilot-israeli-media-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=24008","title":{"rendered":"UAE Has Decided on Death Penalty for Flydubai Co-Pilot, Israeli Media Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Israeli media has claimed that the United Arab Emirates has decided to impose the death penalty on Flydubai co-pilot Hamam al-Hammami over an alleged attempt to crash a flight bound for Israel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Israeli news website Ynet, citing a senior Emirati source, reported that the co-pilot would potentially face the harshest punishment over allegations that he attempted to kill everyone aboard the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Israeli intelligence personnel have arrived in the UAE to participate in the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred recently aboard an Emirati flight travelling from Dubai to Israel, when one pilot attacked and injured the other with a knife. An attempt was made to seize control of the aircraft and crash it.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft was carrying 174 passengers, including 169 Israelis. The pilot who carried out the attack is in the custody of Saudi authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers intervened in time and restrained the co-pilot, bringing the situation under control.<\/p>\n<p>Other off-duty pilots from the airline who were travelling aboard the flight subsequently took control of the aircraft and landed it safely in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli media has claimed that the United Arab Emirates has decided to impose the death penalty on Flydubai co-pilot Hamam al-Hammami over an alleged attempt to crash a flight bound for Israel. Israeli news website Ynet, citing a senior Emirati source, reported that the co-pilot would potentially face the harshest punishment over allegations that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,37],"tags":[13780,8320,6574,1251,434,208],"class_list":["post-24008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-world","tag-co-pilot","tag-death-penalty","tag-flydubai","tag-israel","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-united-arab-emirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24010,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24008\/revisions\/24010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}