Yiannis Kourtoglou / Reuters / Forum
One the first photos of the hijacked plane at the airport in Larnaca
According to the representatives of Egypt on board an aircraft is at the moment the pilot, co-pilot, a female member of the crew, as well as security officer and three passengers. It is not certain whether the kidnapper really have a vest of explosives, but the service they treat this situation as if it had.
How Cypriot media reported the latest demand of man is the release of Egyptian prisoners. This information has not been confirmed.
The hijacker freed first, women and children. This happened after he asked to be present at the airport service is away from the plane at a certain distance. Later allowed to leave the machine to other passengers. On board was to be seven crew members and four passengers foreigners.
According to the BBC, who relies on the airport authority in Alexandria on board were 30 Egyptians, eight Americans, four Britons, 4 Dutch, two Belgians and one Italy.
Who is the kidnapper?
the kidnapper is Saif Al-Din Mustafa, a professor of history at the University of Cairo. It’s still unofficial information.
Earlier, Egyptian television gave the alleged kidnapper Ibrahim Samaha, a professor of veterinary medicine at the University of Alexandria. However, this is not confirmed, and a man of that name was to be one of the freed hostages.
According to the Cypriot media cause hijacking were to be family problems. Cyprus has a living ex-wife kidnapper. The kidnapper had to ask him to assign an interpreter and political asylum. He threw well on the tarmac written in Arabic letter and asked to provide his ex-wife. The woman has to take part in negotiations with the kidnapper.
“He is not a terrorist, but an idiot. Terrorists are crazy, but they are not stupid. This guy is stupid “- that a man had a comment representative of the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This colorful quote said Ruth Michaelson, but a spokesman for the Egyptian Foreign Ministry denies that he used those words.
EgyptAir plane flew on Tuesday morning from Alexandria to Cairo. Pilot Omar El Gamal informed about the threats of one of the passengers, who claimed that a belt of explosives. At the request of the kidnapper plane approx. 7.50 hours landed at Larnaca airport in Cyprus. Earlier, the media stated that the on-board machine is present “at least” one kidnapper. It is not certain whether the man actually in possession of the explosives. Experts say that it is hardly possible that brought them on board.
According to Reuters Israel picked up its combat aircraft as a warning in response to the hijacking.
The Cypriot media reported. that on board the plane were 55 passengers and seven crew members.
the Cypriot Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports that the kidnapper is Seif Eldin Mustafa.
on Twitter a photograph of the alleged kidnapper:
Twitter image also contains the hijacked plane:
the pilot was forced to land in Larnaca. Passengers had to threaten to have a vest of explosives.
Lines EgyptAir confirm that the plane was hijacked MS181.
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