Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Fox News that the co-pilot of the Flydubai flight underwent Islamist radical indoctrination, saying investigators had learned this from the man’s “personal information”.

The United Arab Emirates said it would take the lead in investigating whether the attack was linked to terrorism. A video circulating as a BBC report on the case is a deepfake and the claims it contains are unfounded; the BBC never broadcast it, according to France24.