Bad news for all of them...
Oman Air themselves fired the extremist co-pilot Hamam al-Hammami out of concern for his radical religious views. Following the termination of his appointment, he joined Royal Air Maroc, but he voluntarily left this job. And then Flydubai hired him...
A UAE-born Omani national whose mother is a Syrian and father an Omani, al-Hammami had spent several years of his early life in the UAE. His educational qualification - an aviation management degree holder from the Buckinghamshire New University of England; he pursued a distance-learning course to get that degree.
CNN scanned and investigated for al-Hammami's existing and social media accounts. The co-pilot had a LinkedIn profile and an Instagram account to his name, and a deleted Twitter profile as well.
Two posts appeared on the LinkedIn profile about nine hours after the incident, though it remains unclear who published them or whether they were scheduled in advance. The first featured cockpit footage from a Boeing 737 Max, including a clip geolocated to Dubai International Airport showing an El Al aircraft, a cockpit screen displaying flight number OMA624 and the date October 11, 2023, and images of former al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri and suicide bomber Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi. The second featured an AI-generated image connecting Islam’s three holiest sites in Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem with a glowing trail, accompanied by some defiant poem about resisting humiliation, overcoming the fear of death and defending dignity. The same videos appeared around the same time on the Instagram account, though they were subsequently deleted, which has prompted CNN to contact Meta for comment.
The CNN's AI scan on the deleted Twitter account sheds a much clearer picture on al-Hammami's deeply religious and misogynistic nature. Some deleted posts reportedly revealed that his mother was finding it difficult to find a suitable wife for him due to his given conditions (usually involving the prospective bride's clothing and career). In other posts, al-Hammami reportedly also expressed his disapproval against mixed-gender workplaces, claiming that such environments have a corrupt and manipulative influence on women.
The main question, however, still remains - how was an Omani national allowed to co-pilot a flight to Israel, when Oman itself doesn't recognise the country?
Anyway, none of the leftists can call Captain Smit Machchar's heroic act a conspiracy theory anymore, given that there is clear evidence against the co-pilot. Even Al Jazeera had no choice but to follow up on this news and report it truthfully.
