Flydubai attacker ‘underwent Islamist radical indoctrination’, Netanyahu says

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says investigations counsel the person who stabbed his fellow pilot and tried to take over a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv had undergone “Islamist radical indoctrination”.

The Flydubai aircraft plunged greater than 17,000ft (5,200m) two hours into its journey on Wednesday, earlier than passengers and crew overpowered the attacker and retook management to land safely.

Netanyahu informed Fox Information that it was trying “very possible” that the attacker, who he mentioned was an Omani nationwide, “was going to down the aircraft”.

In the meantime, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) state information company experiences investigations have begun there to find out “whether or not the incident was linked to any terrorist exercise or goal”.

The Inside Ministry of Saudi Arabia – the place the aircraft made an emergency touchdown – mentioned that each the pilot and co-pilot had been despatched again to the UAE on Thursday morning after medical groups had cleared them.

UAE officers earlier claimed jurisdiction over the incident as a result of the plane on which the assault came about is registered there and flies below its flag.

Netanyahu informed Fox that when the attacker had been subdued and tied up by passengers and crew, he was “calling out to the aircrew ‘kill me, kill me’, so it is clear he was suicidal – that is not a query”.