Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview with CNN that the Flydubai flight pilot, Indian Sedat Machchhar, who fought off the Omani co-pilot who stabbed him, "managed to prevent a disaster on the scale of September 11." According to him, "that's how it appears at the moment in terms of the specific motive." Netanyahu added that he spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump about "the amazing act of heroism that prevented a disaster that could have also affected global aviation," and said that "this time, the good guys won." He also said that Israel had no prior warning or intelligence indication of the attempted attack, and that Israel and the United Arab Emirates will conduct a joint investigation to clarify its circumstances. "We will know very soon if Iran had a connection to this," he added.