This is the moment when one of the passengers believed to be held hostage on the EgyptAir plane forced to land in Cyprus, takes a grinning selfie with the hijacker. The hijacker, identified as Seif El Din Mustafa, is seen wearing his 'suicide belt', as an unknown man standing next to him pulls a silly face while taking a picture.
El Din Mustafa hijacked the domestic EgyptAir jet after taking off from Alexandria and forcing it to re-route to Cyprus' Larnaca airport, where he has taken several passengers and crew hostage and demanded to see his Cypriot ex-wife. The hostage situation on the tarmac came to a dramatic end just before 1pm as one of the pilots was seen struggling with someone inside cockpit before jumping out of a window, moments before authorities arrested the hijacker:
Mustafa voluntarily disembarked the plane at around 14.40 local time, and surrendered himself to police(right)
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