曾为比尔·克林顿前总统携带“核按钮手提箱”的男子，正就外国航空公司内部潜在恐怖分子小组发出警报。此前，一名阿联酋航空副驾驶涉嫌袭击飞往以色列航班的机长，导致飞机经历了一次惊心动魄、违背航空常识的俯冲。
The man who once carried the nuclear football for former President Bill Clinton is sounding an alarm on potential terror cells inside foreign airlines after a FlyDubai copilot allegedly attacked the captain of an Israel-bound flight and sent the plane into a death-defying, aeronautics-defying dive.
退役空军中校巴兹·帕特森曾任达美航空飞行员16年，他在周四接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时表示：“航空公司内部存在恐怖分子小组是有可能的——在海外可能更容易，但这绝对是一种可能性。我认为司法部需要对此进行……非常深入的调查。” 此番警告源于一起事件：一架从阿联酋飞往特拉维夫的阿联酋航空航班，因副驾驶在空中袭击机长（据报使用了坠机斧），被迫在沙特阿拉伯塔布克紧急降落。
"It’s possible that terror cells can exist inside airline companies – overseas, probably a lot easier than here, but it's certainly a possibility," retired Air Force Lt. Col. Buzz Patterson, a former Delta Air Lines pilot of 16 years, told Fox News Digital on Thursday. "And I think it is something that DOJ needs to take a... really good look at." The warning came after a FlyDubai flight from the United Arab Emirates to Tel Aviv was forced to make an emergency landing in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, after the copilot attacked the captain mid-flight, reportedly with the crash ax.
该航班载有174名乘客和8名机组人员，调查人员仍在探究动机，包括可能的恐怖主义或心理健康因素——这两者都让帕特森对公共安全（甚至国家安全）感到担忧。
The flight was carrying 174 passengers and eight crew, and investigators are still probing the motive, including possible terrorism or mental health factors – both of which leave Patterson concerned for public safety, if not national security.
前以色列总理赞扬“英雄主义” 乘客协助挫败涉嫌驾驶舱袭击 “如果有人被激进化，却不向公司或同事透露，你永远不会知道，”帕特森说，并指出大多数协议依赖于“自我报告活动”。 “所以我认为，这是我们将开始在航空公司档案和飞行员档案中看到的问题之一：外面有很多人可能不应该驾驶飞机。” 这一警告伴随着这样的揭露：在波音737副驾驶座椅后发现的坠机斧被用来殴打机长，企图劫持飞机。
FORMER ISRAELI PM HAILS ‘HEROISM’ AFTER PASSENGERS HELP THWART ALLEGED COCKPIT ATTACK "If you’ve got somebody that’s, you know, radicalized and if he doesn’t tell his company or his buddies, you’re never gonna know," Patterson said, noting most protocols rely on "self-reporting your activities." "So that's part of the problem, I think, that we're going to start seeing pop up in airline profiles and pilot profiles is we have a lot of people out there that probably shouldn't be flying airplanes." The warning comes amid the revelations that a crash ax found behind the copilot chair in the Boeing 737 was used to bludgeon the pilot in an effort to commandeer the aircraft.
“每一架737——我一辈子驾驶过所有不同型号——驾驶舱副驾驶座位后方都配备了一把撞击斧，以便我们在紧急情况下必要时能砸开机门或机窗，”帕特森说。“如果副驾驶使用了撞击斧，那太野蛮了，因为那东西会伤人。” 印度总理称迪拜航空飞行员展现了“最高形式的勇气” 以色列总理内塔尼亚胡周四早间在“福克斯与朋友”节目中表示，副驾驶似乎经历了“伊斯兰激进灌输”，但称官员需要数天时间来确定他是否与伊朗有关联。特朗普总统随后表示相信存在与伊朗的关联。
"Every 737, and that's what I flew my entire life of all the different models, has a crash ax in the cockpit right behind the copilot so that we can, if we have to, either crack into the door or crack into the windows in the event of an emergency, we can do it," Patterson said. "If the copilot used the crash ax, that is savage because that thing will hurt you." FLYDUBAI PILOT SHOWED WORLD 'THE HIGHEST FORM OF COURAGE,' INDIA'S PM SAYS Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told "FOX & Friends" on Thursday morning that the copilot appeared to have undergone "Islamist radical indoctrination," but said officials would need days to determine whether he had ties to Iran. President Donald Trump since expressed the belief there were ties to Iran.
“国际航空公司和少数国内航空公司在招募机组成员和飞行员时撒下了大网，”帕特森说，并提到他已将担忧通过电子邮件告知了交通部长肖恩·达菲。“有时这张网撒得太广，吸引来的人不太适合他们的航空公司。”帕特森表示，美国和外国航空公司通常非常重视背景调查、病史和航空违规记录，但警告称，一旦飞行员被录用，个性变化或激进化很难被察觉。
"International carriers and a few domestic carriers cast a very wide net looking for applicants to be aircrew members and pilots," Patterson said, noting he has emailed Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy of his concerns. "And sometimes that net is a little too wide for who they attract to their airlines." Patterson said U.S. and foreign airlines typically focus heavily on background checks, medical history and aviation violations, but warned that personality changes or radicalization can be difficult to detect once a pilot is hired.
帕特森还警告说，飞行员经常与几乎不认识的同事搭档飞行——更不用说深入了解他们的心理健康状况了。
Patterson also warned that pilots often fly with colleagues they barely know – much less a deep understanding of their mental health.
“你永远不知道会带来什么，当你第一次进入驾驶舱时，你会在身边发现什么，因为我们不会多次与同一批人飞行——几乎每次都要与不同的人搭档，”他继续说道。“所以每次进入驾驶舱，十有八九都是第一次见面。”"所以我们永远不知道会遇到什么样的搭档。这就是为什么驾驶舱里的初步交谈很重要。你的背景如何？我的背景如何？
"You never know what you're gonna bring to the table, what you gonna find in the cockpit next to you when you first get to the cockpit, because we don't fly with the same guys multiple times – we fly with different people almost every single time," he continued. "So every single time we get in a cockpit, we're meeting somebody for the first time, nine times out of 10. "So we never know who we're getting either. And that's why the initial conversation in the cockpit's important. What's your background? What's mine?
家庭生活怎样？你的世界发生了什么？这些事情能让我们对彼此多一些了解，但不可能全了解。根本没办法。你就是不知道。"帕特森表示，无论美国商业机组人员在机场是否仅接受随机安检，那个波音737驾驶舱内的坠机斧头仍留下了一个需要堵上的潜在安全漏洞。"就在那里，"帕特森在周四表示，当时官方报告尚未指出坠机斧头是嫌疑恐怖分子使用的武器。"
How's your family life? What's going on in your world? That kind of stuff will flesh out some of that stuff, but you can't flesh it all out. There's just no way. And you don't know." There remains a potential security loophole that needs to be closed with that 737 crash ax in the cockpit, regardless of whether U.S. commercial crews are only randomly screened at airports, according to Patterson. "It's right there," Patterson said Thursday before official reports noted the crash ax as the weapon used by the suspected terrorist.
你知道，我完全能想象副驾驶说他需要伸展一下。他从座位上站起来，因为我们在737上就是这样做的。驾驶舱非常狭窄。"偶尔一名飞行员会站起来，站在驾驶舱后部伸展一下，促进血液循环。而副驾驶站着的时候伸手就能拿到那把斧头，这太容易了。我是说，我能想象到这种情况发生，但愿别发生，因为那太残暴了。"
"You know, I can easily see the copilot saying he needed to stretch. He pulls out of the seat because we do this in the 737. It's a very tight cockpit. "Occasionally one pilot will get up, stand in the back of the cockpit and just stretch, you know, get the blood pumping. And it would be very easy for the copilot just to reach down while standing up and grab that ax. I mean, I can see it happening, and God forbid if it did because that's brutal."
美国在9/11后建起堡垒，威胁却开始隐形潜伏 恐怖分子的阴谋强调，美国不仅要审查国内航空公司的招聘，还要审查进入美国领空的外国机组人员，他警告说。"我认为美国需要仔细审视不仅是谁被允许在这个国家操作重型机械，所谓重型机械，指的就是航空、飞机，"帕特森说。"我们雇佣谁、安排谁担任这些权力职位，更重要的是，我们允许其他航空公司的哪些人飞入我们的领空？"
AMERICA BUILT A FORTRESS AFTER 9/11. THEN THE THREAT STARTED HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT The terrorist scheme emphasizes that the U.S. should scrutinize not only domestic airline hiring, but also foreign crews entering American airspace, he warned. "I think the United States needs to take a close look at not only who we are allowing to operate heavy machinery in this country, and by heavy machinery, I mean aviation, airplanes," Patterson said. "Who we are hiring and putting into those positions of authority, and then more importantly, who are we allowing from the other carriers to fly into our airspace?"
内塔尼亚胡向福克斯新闻指出，这名FlyDubai（迪拜航空）副驾驶袭击者是阿曼国籍，他通过了以色列针对与以色列无外交关系国家飞行员的限制中的一个"漏洞"。
Netanyahu noted to Fox News that the FlyDubai copilot attack was an Omani national who made it through a "loophole" of an Israeli restriction against pilots from countries that do not have diplomatic relations with Israel.
虽然“9·11事件在航空领域改变了一切”，但显然要确保航空安全，还有大量工作要做，他总结道。
While "9/11 changed everything in terms of aviation for everybody," clearly there is far more work to be done to ensure airline safety, he concluded.
“你永远不知道飞机后舱装载了什么，”他说。“有时和你一起飞行的人是个不确定因素，有时飞机后舱里的人也是不确定因素。我认为有些公司做安检工作、做审查筛选工作比其他公司做得更好。”
"You never know what you're carrying on the back of the airplane," he said. "Sometimes the guy you're flying with is a wild card and sometimes the guys in the back of the airplane are a wild card. And I think that just some companies do the job, the security job, and they do the vetting screening better than other companies do."