{"id":1972,"date":"2026-10-05T22:42:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T22:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2026-10-05T22:42:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T22:42:58","slug":"australia-and-new-zealand-probe-flydubai-co-pilots-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/blog\/2026\/10\/05\/australia-and-new-zealand-probe-flydubai-co-pilots-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia and New Zealand Probe FlyDubai Co-Pilot\u2019s Past"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australian and New Zealand authorities are investigating the previous time spent in their countries by an Omani FlyDubai co-pilot accused of attempting to seize an Israel-bound aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Associated Press, Australian security agencies are examining the man\u2019s links to Australia, where he spent time about a decade ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Australian Federal Police said a joint counterterrorism team involving federal and state police and the domestic intelligence agency ASIO is investigating his links to the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New Zealand police also confirmed that the co-pilot had spent time in New Zealand and said authorities would investigate his links there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The man remains in custody in the United Arab Emirates over the alleged attack, in which he reportedly attempted to take control of the aircraft and crash it in Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian and New Zealand authorities are investigating the previous time spent in their countries by an Omani FlyDubai co-pilot accused of attempting to seize an Israel-bound aircraft. According to the Associated Press, Australian security agencies are examining the man\u2019s links to Australia, where he spent time about a decade ago. The Australian Federal Police said &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,29],"tags":[191,400,482,781],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-world","tag-australia","tag-counterterrorism","tag-flydubai","tag-new-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1974,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions\/1974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}