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A hijacker seized an Egyptian airliner on Tuesday and diverted it to Cyprus, before eventually releasing all of the passengers and surrendering. Officials say the suspect, who has been arrested, was threatening to detonate an explosives vest.
A 26-year-old Briton on an EgyptAir plane Tuesday did what Millennials do all the time: He took a selfie.
This wasn't just any selfie, however. The photo included the man authorities say hijacked Ben Innes' plane.
Innes was one of the remaining hostages during a six-hour standoff at Cyprus' Larnaca airport, the Guardian reported. In a plot twist to an already strange incident officials say was over a woman, Innes asked Seif Eldin Mustafa, the alleged captor who claimed to be wearing a suicide belt, to pose in the photo with him.
What could go wrong?
“I figured if his bomb was real I’d nothing to lose anyway," Ben Innes, 26, of Britain, told the British tabloid The Sun.
Mustafa, who lives in Egypt, orchestrated the plane hijacking as a way to get to his ex-wife in Cyprus, authorities said. Cypriot state media reported that he took over the Cairo-bound flight after it took off from Alexandria and had it redirected to Cyprus. When the plane touched down in Larnaca at 7:50 a.m., he demanded that authorities deliver a four-page letter to his ex-wife or else he would set off his bomb belt, Cypriot state media reported.
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