Israel does not know whether Iran is connected with the incident on the Flydubai flight, media write

Israel does not have information that could confirm or deny Iran's connection to the incident on the Flydubai flight.

According to Israeli intelligence services, the co-pilot of the Flydubai flight, who attacked the captain of the aircraft during the flight, acted alone.

TEL AVIV, October 6 - RIA Novosti. Israel does not have any information that could confirm or deny Iran's connection with the incident on the Flydubai flight, the Israeli portal Walla reported, citing an informed source from the security services.

“We are in the dark. We have no information that could exclude or confirm Iran’s involvement,” the portal quotes a statement from a source who is familiar with the investigation into the incident in the UAE.

According to Walla, the assessment of the Israeli intelligence services at this stage boils down to the version that the co-pilot of the Flydubai flight, who attacked the captain of the aircraft during the flight, acted alone.

US President Donald Trump previously said that he holds Iran responsible for the incident with the Flydubai flight. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ismail Baghai, in turn, said that the incident with the Flydubai flight was “clumsily planned” in order to blame Iran or other countries in the region.

A Flydubai plane flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv on September 30 signaled an emergency and some time later made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. The airline later confirmed that a fight broke out between the pilots during the flight.

Later, information appeared in the media that one of the pilots had wounded the other with a knife and wanted to cause a plane crash. This information was confirmed to RIA Novosti by passengers of the flight.