FlyDubai co-pilot Hamam al Hamami spent a year bashing women with “manosphere” rhetoric on X, posts show

October 8, 2026 / 12:14 PM EDT / CBS News

The FlyDubai co-pilot whose alleged violent attempt to crash a flight to Israel last week and kill everyone onboard has a history of writing and sharing misogynistic remarks on social media using the rhetoric of the so-called manosphere, CBS News has found.

The Financial Times first reported Wednesday that it discovered some 3,000 posts written and shared by Hamam al Hamami on an X account that has since been deleted. The posts used derogatory language about women espoused by misogynistic online influencers.

His remarks include calling women "rotten meat," according to the FT's investigation.

Multiple sources familiar with the investigation into the alleged hijacking attempt told CBS News last week that al Hamami was the co-pilot who attacked the plane's captain with a cockpit emergency ax as it approached Israel on Sept. 27. Passengers and crew managed to subdue him, according to their own accounts, and an off-duty flight crew on the jet made a safe emergency landing in Saudi Arabia.

An Israeli security official told CBS News authorities were investigating the possibility the incident could have been an attempted Sept. 11-style terror attack. President Trump suggested a couple of…

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