🔺The Wall Street Journal: Oman had barred the Flydubai flight attacker due to his extremist views

▪According to people familiar with the matter, the co-pilot of the company “Flydubai,” who attacked the main pilot with a knife—causing flight No. 1073 to face a risk of a crash and to descend toward the ground at high speed—had previously been barred from flying by Oman due to concerns about a tendency toward extremist ideological views.