The flydubai co-pilot may have tried shutting down the two engines of the Boeing 737 after his plan to crash the aircraft into a building in Tel Aviv failed, according to the Corriere della Sera, in a text republished by the Hindustan Times.

Netanyahu instructed the head of the National Security Council, Shmuel Ben Ezra, to appoint an examiner to review all security aspects of foreign civil aviation to Israel. Investigators were still working to determine a motive, but an Israeli official said information from the inquiry suggested the suspect acted alone.