Experts Weigh in on Solutions to Security Gaps Exposed in Flydubai Fiasco

Yossi Amrusi: In professional terms, this is an ‘insider threat,’ and it forces us to re-examine the fundamental beliefs that aviation security is built on. It highlights the importance of having additional protection mechanisms in case one of the crew members, not necessarily the pilot, turns out to be a threat.

Security screening, must extend beyond pilots to include other flight personnel and ground crews responsible for maintaining and servicing aircraft.

You can check a person’s history, his training and his professional abilities, but it is much harder to predict his future intentions. Screening improvements alone would be insufficient because no system can reliably predict every person’s future behavior.

We need to be honest though—there is no test that can predict with certainty the malicious intentions of a person. Therefore, we need a system that can handle the situation once a person has managed to evade the testing.

Published in The Media Line, October 13, 2026.