Flydubai co-pilot who attacked pilot posted sexist and misogynistic views online - report

The Flydubai co-pilot who tried to hijack reflight FZ1073 to Tel Aviv was a former cryptocurrency speculator who, four years ago, called women "rotten meat" on a now disabled social media account, the Financial Times reported. The FT reviewed more than 3,000 Arabic posts Omani-Syrian Hamam al-Hammami wrote on Twitter between November 2021 and October 2022, when he was 25.

Al-Hammami's account has been deleted, but the posts remain on an internet archive. He praised flying as the "safest means of transportation" and reportedly fused highly conservative interpretations of Islam with the sexist language of the "manosphere."

He wrote that he was desperate for an arranged marriage. "I'm 25, and I want to get married today, before tomorrow!" he tweeted in January 2022. Among his many demands of this hypothetical wife included the fact that she must be between 18 to 23 years old, religious, Saudi Arabian, wear a niqab, and not work outside the home. He further claimed that most women "care primarily about money" and were "skilled at pretence."

The FT said his posts regularly evoked violence against women. "Her only obligation is to lift her legs," he wrote. Of a woman seeking a divorce, he said: "She needs a good thrashing."

He also boasted about his own conduct. "I have never touched a girl in my life," he wrote in January 2022, "even though I swear I have many opportunities . . . God has protected us from temptations." He added that he would not "chase after cheap, rotten flesh."

Additionally, in 2019, Hammami claimed he was tempted by "the devil" after getting into cryptocurrency speculation and losing 120,000 Rials. While he did not specify the currency, if it were Omani rials, that would be a loss of more than $300,000.