The whole FlyDubai story falls apart the second anyone looks at it. Blades slipping through one of the planet's tightest airports, a sealed cockpit somehow breached, a plunge with no masks deployed and passengers strolling through freefall — none of that adds up. Convenient timing, too, with cameras rolling and sympathy needed.
Post-9/11 security rules are clearly outdated when someone hired months earlier, flagged by colleagues for extremist behavior, gets cleared for an Israel-bound cockpit. Vetting has to account for ideology, not just paperwork, and anyone openly hostile to Israel belongs under scrutiny. Leaders in Europe who keep stoking hatred of Jews helped create this moment.
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