Israel's Prime Minister (PM) Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday said that the attacker in the flydubai incident underwent Islamist radicalisation and intended to crash the plane with all its passengers on board, news agency IANS reported.

“As time passes, the picture is becoming clearer. Yaniv and his heroic companions prevented a disaster on the scale of 9/11. The attacker underwent Islamist radicalisation. He intended to crash the plane with all its passengers on board,” the Office of the Prime Minister of Israel stated on X, quoting Netanyahu.