Transport Ministry Responds to Claims Against Them: 'Not Responsible for Foreign Flights'
The Ministry of Transport is going on the offensive following the allegations raised surrounding the alleged failure in the affair of the Omani co-pilot on the Flydubai flight. The Ministry claims that foreign parties are…
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The Transportation Ministry is pushing back hard against claims it failed to vet an Omani copilot on a Flydubai flight. The ministry insists the public is being misled by a deliberate conflation of two distinct categories: foreign airlines and Israeli-chartered flights. It says the disputed document only covers chartered flights, not foreign carriers. The core question is whether security responsibility for foreign airlines was ever transferred to the ministry, which it flatly denies, pointing to a 1977 legal framework. Watch for whether the ministry produces that framework or the original document to settle the factual dispute.