{"id":87176,"date":"2026-10-03T06:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T10:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87176"},"modified":"2026-10-03T06:55:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T10:55:32","slug":"terrorist-used-axe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/terrorist-used-axe\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrorist Used Axe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The co-pilot accused of <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-saudi-arabia-dubai-emergency-landing-fd1835479898f2f944792913af7cbce6\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">attacking the captain on an Israel-bound flight<\/a><\/span> with an axe and trying to seize the controls was an Omani national who\u2019d been barred from flying on his country\u2019s airline because of concerns about extremist views, officials said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The co-pilot has been identified as Hamam al-Hammami, according to three people with knowledge of the situation, including a Gulf and Western diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.\u00a0The United Arab Emirates, which is leading the investigation, said the co-pilot attacked with the cockpit\u2019s crash axe and tried to take control of the <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/flydubai-timeline-altitude-pilot-passengers-flight-data-d878818cd31072a42f3615b8383a40f1\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">sharply plummeting plane<\/a><\/span> in a \u201cterrorist attack\u201d Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: The co-pilot accused of attacking the captain on an Israel-bound flight with an axe and trying to seize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87177,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87176\/revisions\/87177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}