迪拜航空（FlyDubai）的一名飞行员刺伤机长并导致飞机俯冲坠向地面，这一事件突破了全球最严密的航空安全网之一。人们不禁要问：他是如何做到的？
The FlyDubai pilot who stabbed his captain and sent the plane diving toward the ground slipped through one of the world’s tightest aviation-security nets. The question is: How?
连接阿拉伯联合酋长国和以色列的航线是全球最敏感的航线之一。中东地区有着漫长的民航客机劫持及其他袭击历史。
The route connecting the United Arab Emirates and Israel is one of the world’s most sensitive. The Middle East has a long history of hijackings and other attacks on civilian airliners.
为了应对袭击，两国都拥有全球最先进的监控技术和强大的情报网络。此外，自2001年美国“9·11”恐怖袭击事件以及德国之翼航空9525号航班在法国阿尔卑斯山蓄意坠毁事件后，航空法规已多次收紧。
To counter attacks, both countries have some of the world’s most advanced surveillance technologies and capable spy networks. On top of that, air regulations have been repeatedly tightened following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S. and the Germanwings Flight 9525 intentional crash in the French Alps.
然而，周三仍有一名飞行员成功隐瞒了意图，获取了一把刀，并使一架载有约170人的飞机进入了几乎使其在空中解体的陡峭俯冲状态。
And yet on Wednesday a pilot was able to conceal his intentions, gain access to a knife, and put a plane carrying around 170 people into a dive so steep it nearly tore it apart in midair.
“这百分之百是一次重大的安全失误，”撰写过关于以色列中东未来书籍的安全与地缘政治分析师迈克尔·霍洛维茨（Michael Horowitz）表示，“问题在于其影响范围有多广，情况有多糟糕。”这一答案将影响以色列与世界的空中联系，以及阿联酋核心航空和旅游业的前景。在调查期间，迪拜航空已暂停了飞往以色列的航班。由于与伊朗战争相关的风险，多家国际航空公司此前已暂停飞往阿联酋和以色列的航班数月之久。
“This is 100% a major security failure,” said Michael Horowitz, a security and geopolitical analyst who wrote a book about Israel’s future in the Middle East. “The question is how broad and how bad.”The answer will weigh on Israel’s air links to the world and the prospects of the U.A.E.’s core aviation and tourism businesses. FlyDubai suspended its flights to Israel while the investigation continued. A number of international airlines already had suspended flights to both the U.A.E. and Israel for months because of the risks associated with the Iran war.