India, Oct. 1 -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday addressed questions around the possibility of an Iranian link to the alleged attempt to crash an Israel-bound flydubai flight, saying Israel will get to the "root" of the incident and may participate in the investigation.

"We'll get to the root of this attacker, whether he had accomplices, whether Iran was behind it. I think we'll find out very soon," Netanyahu said in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity on the network's "Hannity" programme. Track flydubai incident LIVE.

The comments came hours after passengers and crew aboard flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv helped foil an alleged attempt by the co-pilot to bring down the aircraft. Israeli officials sai...