Alleged flydubai attacker left Australia without finishing engineering course, university says

<p>RMIT confirms co-pilot was a student as Australian authorities examine his time in country between 2015 and 2017</p><p>An Australian university has confirmed a flydubai co-pilot who allegedly tried to hijack an Israel-bound flight studied at its Melbourne campus, but left before completing his qualification.</p><p>Disaster was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/30/whoever-is-hearing-me-we-need-help-how-flight-1073-survived-its-5000-metre-plunge">narrowly averted</a> on 30 September when passengers and crew intervened to stop the alleged attempt of the co-pilot, identified by media outlets as Hammam al-Hammami, to take control of a flight to Tel Aviv with 182 people onboard.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/05/australia-university-engineering-flydubai-co-pilot-rmit-ntwnfb">Continue reading...</a>