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Australian man rejects UAE links to Flydubai cockpit attack: ‘false accusations’

Agence France-Presse · South China Morning Post
Published 12 Oct 2026, 5:08 pm·1 h ago·1 min read
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A Melbourne man whose Islamic community centre has been linked by prosecutors in the United Arab Emirates to the co-pilot who allegedly attacked the captain of a Flydubai jet has hit out at “false accusations”. The Omani co-pilot, now in custody in the UAE, had drawn inspiration from al-Qaeda’s September 11, 2001 suicide attacks, and carried out his attempt “with the aim of causing the greatest possible loss of life”, according to the Emirati prosecutor’s findings published by state media last...

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