Israel reacts as flydubai co-pilot’s ‘crash’ bid puts focus on background checks: ‘We are not an intel body’
Israel’s Transportation Ministry has said it does not conduct background checks on pilots flying into the country and cannot guarantee that those flights are “100 percent” safe, amid growing questions over whether the Israeli government could have prevented the near-disaster aboard flydubai Flight 1073 earlier this week. Israeli passengers arrive at Ben Gurion Airport after…