Posted on 10/02/2026 5:38:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The recent terrifying crisis aboard Flydubai Flight FZ 1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv serves as a stark warning to the global security community: Commercial aviation remains a prime target, and the nature of the threat is rapidly shifting.
During the flight, a violent struggle erupted inside the cockpit, sending the aircraft into a sudden, steep descent from 17,000 feet and triggering emergency distress codes. A horrific disaster was averted only because of the immediate, decisive intervention of the remaining crew and vigilant passengers on board, who managed to overpower the individual and stabilize the aircraft before an emergency diversion to Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.
While we can breathe a sigh of relief for the lives saved, security professionals must look beyond the immediate heroism. This incident highlights a systemic, evolving vulnerability that the aviation industry can no longer afford to ignore.
The Historic Reality of the Insider Threat
When post-9/11 security overhauls were implemented worldwide, the primary focus was on hardened cockpit doors and thorough passenger screening at checkpoints. The underlying assumption was that the primary threat would always come from the passenger cabin. Yet, history tells a far more complicated story. The threat behind the flight deck door, the insider threat, has repeatedly brought commercial airliners to the brink of catastrophe:
- Federal Express Flight 705 (1994): Auburn Calloway, an off-duty FedEx flight engineer facing termination, boarded a DC-10 carrying heavy weapons hidden in a guitar case. Intending to crash the plane and stage it as an accident, Calloway severely injured the flight crew. Despite sustaining massive trauma, the pilots fought back, neutralized Calloway, and executed an extraordinary landing.
- SilkAir Flight 185 (1997): Investigating authorities concluded that the captain intentionally disabled the flight data recorders and placed the Boeing 737
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The Israelis forgot to see if the copilot had checked the “teach me to land” option in flight school.
Commercial aviation remains a prime target, and the nature of the threat is rapidly shifting.
We paid them to stop. Will we do that again?
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Rule #1: Don’t hire any crew men named Abdul. Or Muhammad.
Israel has an obligation to enforce its own national security measures...it can’t be outsourcing that work to other countries and expect a different result over time.
At a minimum this would include reviewing the background of pilots coming into the country on an ongoing basis and proactively flagging the ones who are not allowed.
Somehow this Omani pilot/hijacker managed to evade those security measures and the question that needs to be answered is how that was accomplished.
If the answer is a failure to properly enforce the pilot restrictions than that is what needs to be ‘fixed’ before the entire commercial airline industry is forced to make changes.
Germanwings 9525 pilot was not a Muslim. His name was Andreas Lubitz. He suffered from delusions that he was going blind, which led to depression and suicidal ideation. There was actually a doctor’s note issued the day before that he shouldn’t be allowed to fly but German health privacy laws made it illegal for them to share that information with the airline.
My mistake
“What if the ground controllers are terrorists too?”
My first thought too, which it why it would be structured as follows: The ground wouldn’t have much control too, since the plane would simply be commanded to cut off the cockpit and safely fly and land at the nearest PRE-SELECTED airport - the ground would have no other capability either.
bkmk
The movie isn’t brutal or serious, but they take it for granted and just unselfconsciously portray Muslims as Muslims and not in a mean way but as just being Muslim, kids can watch it and not realize that the culture is about slavery and sex slaves captured and bought and sold, and blond, Janissaries are in it although they don’t give any history of them, the audience probably knew the basic outline of the Islamic world from their public school education.
Good copy! Islam is a cult that doesn’t seek intellectual adherence, just comprehensive, even if shallow, subjection.
I get quite a few e-mails about zero trust. What is it?
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