COULD A FLYDUBAI-STYLE SECURITY FAILURE HAPPEN IN AMERICA?

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Last week, a Flydubai co-pilot allegedly took an ax to his captain and tried to seize a passenger jet headed for Israel.

The plane dropped seventeen thousand feet in two minutes before passengers and two off-duty pilots got it down.

He'd already been grounded once over extremist views. Flydubai hired him anyway.

Now, a story closer to home.

A United Airlines pilot who publicly defended the October 7 attack is reportedly flying passengers again.

His name is Ibrahim R. Mossallam. In 2023, he called the massacre "resistance by a brave people" and wrote that it was "not an unprovoked attack."

United removed him from service, with pay, and said it would look into it.

Now an Israeli reporter says he's back in the cockpit. She asked United why. The airline hasn't responded.

Off duty, Mossallam is Board Vice President of CAIR-New York, which lists him as a professional international airline pilot.

There's no indication he's ever threatened anyone. His posts are his only known offense.

But the Flydubai case shows how a red flag can get missed. One airline saw the warning signs and grounded its pilot. The next one hired him without digging deeper.

United hasn't said whether Mossallam is flying today.

Or who decided he should be.