Posted on 10/16/2026 8:56:52 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
[I used Grok to condense the YouTube transcript]:
On September 30, Fly Dubai flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv was attacked in the cockpit by co-pilot Hamam al-Hamami. He used a ruse of needing to pray to leave his seat, retrieved the crash axe from behind the captain’s position, and struck Captain Schmidt (an Indian national). Passengers intervened, subdued the attacker, and assisted in recovering the aircraft from a steep dive of roughly 14,000–16,000 feet. Deadheading crew members entered the cockpit and flew the aircraft to an airport in Saudi Arabia, where the attacker was arrested. Evacuation lights activated during the dive, consistent with dual engine failure or related electrical/fuel cutoff conditions.
UAE authorities opened a formal investigation on October 1 and interrogated al-Hamami. On October 3, two additional Fly Dubai pilots, both Maldivian nationals, were arrested. The three pilots knew one another and lived in the same building. Maldivian media reported on October 8 that the two remained in custody and under questioning. On October 9, the UAE attorney general stated that al-Hamami’s intended target was a suicide attack on the passenger terminal at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv; he claimed to have acted alone. India opened a separate investigation on October 10 because of the captain’s nationality.
Al-Hamami had begun consuming extremist materials focused on 9/11-style attacks in 2017. He joined Fly Dubai in January 2026 after leaving a prior airline that had removed him from flying duties amid suspicions and placed him in administrative work. He passed Fly Dubai’s screening, completed at least two familiarization flights to Tel Aviv, and later described his preparations during interrogation.
The two additional pilots were held for questioning by UAE authorities for roughly ten days, then deported to the Maldives, where they were further questioned and released. They are no longer able to operate for Fly Dubai. Israel has restricted both cockpit and cabin crew from 31 nationalities from flying into the country; Air France has also barred Pakistani flight crew (among others) from routes to Israel following the incident. Reporting on the additional arrests was delayed while the investigation continued, consistent with standard practice to avoid compromising potential further leads. Sources include UAE attorney general statements, Reuters, Indian Express, NDTV, and Maldivian outlets.
Captain Steeeve raises five questions based on the timeline of the Fly Dubai incident:
Captain Steeeve speculates that this news about THREE terrorist pilots is the end of FlyDubai.
Were they let go in hopes that they will lead them to others?
Captain Steeeve says the two dead heading pilots literally crawled over the scrum in the First Class Galley to make their way to the cockpit to save the aircraft.
I like Israel's response -- ban cockpit and cabin crew from 31 countries from flying into Israel. That's left airlines scrambling to figure out how to arrange schedules and fill personnel holes.
Ping!
This is the country where HRC as Secretary of State under Obama gave them preferential treatment regards the TSA when they graciously donated a lot of money to the Clinton foundation and Bill for a speech.
For a little cash, it’s OK to put American lives a risk.
Will the MSM remember this? Or will they have a collective memory failure, again?
Israel is one of the few that “makes sense.”
They understand that the threat emanates from certain regions, among certain groups, and they identify those and then make policies that are LOGICAL to reduce the threat by making folks from those areas less likely to be in a position where they can cause a problem.
We in the US, are so Politically Correct, that is an elevator door opened and a dude with a bloody axe wearing a Jason mask were inside, but that dude were black, Muslim, or trans, we’d feel compelled to get in the elevator.
This pilot gives a really good explanation.
Where it’s conjecture, he states, “this is conjecture.”
Very detailed, uses a timeline...
You can tell this guy uses his head.
THX.
Captain Steeeeve is a retired American Airlines Captain. He brings a very sober analysis of aviation incidents. Many fellow conservatives follow him.
btt
two comments:
1. “I used Grok to condense the YouTube transcript”
AWESOME! i refuse to waste time watching long-winded videos of people too lazy to write stuff down, because i quickly scan written articles and slow down to focus on the meat [should i find any].
Too bad Victor Davis Hanson can’t learn your trick, or he could convert his podcasts into publishable columns with the push of a button, and go back to being a great writer instead of just another pod-caster yammer-head.
btw, would you post the exact way you phrased your request to grok, e.g., did you copy and paste the transcript or post a link to it, plus the phrasing of the request?
[i use Gemini and grok all the time, but so far, mostly just mostly ask practical questions, though i know others who make complex requests, like writing living trust documents, etc. ... recently i even asked Gemini to provide me with powershell code to perform a specific task: the code had a bug and i then pointed out the bug and Gemini fixed it.]
2. regarding banning pilots of Muslim terrorist countries, i was overjoyed to see Israel [and even Air France!] make such a ban, as that was my first notion of what should be done.
Count on the Israelis to use common sense and ignore any “politically correct” bullshit [they really have no choice, do they?] ... It’s also going to be interesting to see the ramifications of the Israeli ban, i.e., how many other countries will smarten up and do the same damn thing!
For a little cash, it’s OK to put American lives a risk......
I am more worried about the airport in Minneapolis.
Updated Pilot test:
1: Use up a case of koran branded urinal cakes.
2:Volunteer in a no-kill in puppy kennel for a month.
3: Regularly enjoy pork BBQ and beers.
4: No raping anyone or anything.
5: Repeat after me Allah is not Akbar.
6: Can you fly plane?
Amen! to that. Grok, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude et al are Godsends for ending that problem and getting to the gist.
That was a simple prompt:
"Prepare a concise factual summary of this Captain Steeeve podcast. Delete time stamps. Make html, no css. No h1, or h2. Remove Chapter headings."I learned basic html years ago, but typing the tags is a pain in the neck. At first, I asked AI to write summaries in html, but I quickly discovered it will use the latest css standards that do not work on FR ("Cascading Style Sheets" or CSS were introduced in 1996!). I tried telling AI "use HTML 2.0" which was the first formal standard. It defined core features (document structure with <html>, <head>, <body>, forms, images, lists, etc.) and became the baseline for websites until around early 1997. That didn't always work.
Then I discovered all I had to write was the inverse -- tell it what I DO NOT WANT. I tried "No css" -- bingo! I get clean html I can paste into FR. I often use other enhancements like:
I'll often add "No h1, h2 or h3 tags" because even Heading 3 ("h3") is too big.
In this case, I pasted in the entire transcript from YouTube. In Safari, it copied a bunch of junk with AI stripped out for me. If the summary leaves things out, I tell it to put them back in. In this case, it omitted the five questions at the end that Captain Steeeve asked, so I re-prompted "Summarize the five questions Captain Steeeve asks at the end of the podcast. html, no css, use OL". It gave them right back to me in html which I pasted at the bottom.
If the summary is too brief, I tell it "Expand a little bit."
I post technical, space, and health articles now and then. If I find a complicated medical/biology technical paper I don't understand, I tell AI "Write a concise summary at the high school biology level" or "the college freshman biology level." If it comes back too dumbed-down, I'll say "That's too simplified; make it a bit more technical."
Sometimes I'll tell it the audience. "Write for the FreeRepublic audience. Assume the average FReepers has a PhD and has completed post-doc work." (jk). But I DO tell it to write for a "general lay audience" or "assume a knowledgeable, well-educated audience."
I stored a few common prompts in a text file that I can grab in seconds.
I do a lot of personal health tracking - blood labs, blood pressure, medications, nutrition, sleep, weight, exercise, hiking, etc. Have done that for 20 years to help stay on track. As an engineer I believe in "If you don't measure it, you can't do anything about it." I've been using Claude to write Python programs that have greatly improved my health tracking. The level of analytical sophistication it's added is amazing.
Presuming their innocence (because why would they accomplish the save if they were in on it?) I imagine the steep dive itself would have alerted them, and they probably started making their way to the front immediately to see if they could help. The whole thing took seconds.
“why would they accomplish the save if they were in on it?”
That seems to be what Captain Steeeve is asking. Were any of the cabin crew in on it?
If the cabin crew were in on it, they could just passively die. But the deadhead pilots took positive action—if they had been in on it, they would have just continued the dive. There was no reason for them to save the plane if they were in on it; i.e. presumed innocent.
Very interesting, thank for posting!
There is also a follow-up video of Steeve interviewing an Israeli passenger from the flight, who relates his minute-by-minute perceptions of the highjacking from the passengers’ point of view. More heroism from those who were “good in a crisis” and stepped up to help:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39QxhRn2v3I
Deadhead pilots crawled over the scrum to get to the cockpit. Heroes.
The cabin attendants were apparently doing nothing. Bad training?
That struck me also. On the other hand, I imagine there is an ingrained and rigid hierarchy in airline biz, and the crew are afraid to cross lines when it comes to the pilot's prerogatives. Just a guess as to why they may have felt paralyzed. But every one of them really must be investigated.
Steeve conjectured that FlyDubai is not going to be able to stay in business. Even so, their backgrounds need to be checked in case they go to another airline. And what a black mark for Dubai, that has been posturing as a luxury destination.
Fly Dubai?
Well, BYE!.........
When HRC was secretary of state, she threw her weight behind ensuring the it was easier for folks to travel to the US and certain TSA checks could be done by the locals.
Of course UAE donating to their foundation and paying her husband millions for a 45 minute speech had nothing to do with it.
https://apnews.com/united-states-presidential-election-events-9724b25012924921ad30c4bade01b2f9
Our political system runs on money. Who politicians take money from, that is key!!! It is telling about whose interests they truly represent.
Laws like McCain Feingold were stupid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipartisan_Campaign_Reform_Act
However, the public should have a right to know who is giving how much to a politician, and that information is extremely incomplete/inaccurate and not easily accessible.
Politicians that represent the people and fill positions of pubic trust (what they do impacts us), who are asking for our vote, should have no privacy when it comes to their incomes (all of them).
The problem is how do we do that when the payments or kickback schemes are often through family: wives, children, husbands... We can make the politician report, but their family is obviously outside that requirement.
Someone smart needs to figure out how the public can get insight to this, but without violating peoples right to privacy.
What we have today is unacceptable. The public really does not know where a politician stands. They are all going to say whatever it takes to get elected. When politicians take these payments, there are ALWAYS strings attached.
American politicians are basically being paid off and often the public has no idea who the interests are which are paying off these politicians. In some cases, the interests paying off US politicians stand in conflict with our national interests or what the public voting for this politician support: most favored trade with China for many years is an obvious example.
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