Oman Banned Fly­Dubai Co-Pilot Over ‘Rad­i­cal’ Views Before Cock­pit Attack

Oman had banned the Fly­Dubai co-pilot accused of stab­bing his cap­tain in an attempt­ed hijack­ing from fly­ing over con­cerns that he had adopt­ed “rad­i­cal ide­o­log­i­cal views,” accord­ing to a new report. 
Despite the ban, Fly­Dubai hired the Omani nation­al, allow­ing him to fly the route between the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates and Israel, The Wall Street Jour­nal report­ed. The Jour­nal could not deter­mine whether Oman had shared its con­cerns about the sus­pect­ed ter­ror­ist with oth­er air­lines or coun­tries 
Avi­a­tion-secu­ri­ty ana­lysts told The Jour­nal that the attack exposed a major secu­ri­ty fail­ure. Even if a screen­ing lapse allowed a weapon through, they said, a moti­vat­ed assailant should have be …