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New Zealand police probes flydubai hijacker's time spent in island country - report

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The Jerusalem Post
“New Zealand police probes flydubai hijacker's time spent in island country - report”

Additionally, the New Zealand Herald reported that Captain Smit Machchhar, the Indian pilot whom Hammami attacked aboard the flydubai flight, had trained in the island country.

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The Guardian – World
“Flydubai attack investigation widens as alleged hijacker’s training in New Zealand scrutinised”

Hamam al-Hammami spent 175 days in New Zealand until May 2019, as Australian Jewish group calls for full investigation into his time in Melbourne New Zealand authorities have launched their own investigation into the flydubai co-pilot who allegedly tried to hijack an Israel-bound plane, after police confirmed he underwent flight training there about a year after he abandoned a degree in Australia. Disaster was narrowly averted on 30 September when passengers and crew intervened to stop the…

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