Reuters news agency reported that the EgyptAir A320 aircraft performing an internal flight from Alexandria to Cairo (MS 181) was kidnapped and later landed at Larnaca Airport, Cyprus. According to Egyptian media, in the apparatus there were 81 passengers Egyptian, British and American nationality.
First it circulated in the media information about the kidnapping of the ship by a terrorist carrying explosives attached to his body. However, the authorities subsequently ruled that the man portara explosives.
The hijacker has been identified as Seif El Din Mustafa, an Egyptian of 59 years. Mustafa was married to a Cypriot citizen, Marina Paraschou and would have done with the A320 for personal reasons, reports the Cyprus TV.
According to information from the news agency RIA Novosti, the kidnapper is a member of the Egyptian opposition and demand the release of several prisoners in Egyptian prisons women. It asked the Cypriot authorities to refuel the plane to go to Turkey.
It has also emerged that the hijacker asked to spend an envelope intended for his ex-wife. Cypriot media said that kidnapper has asked, by that letter, asylum in Cyprus.
Upon landing, the kidnapper first proposed release women and children of Egyptian nationality. And later he let out all occupants of the aircraft. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cyprus hijacker he has been arrested.
Prime Minister of Egypt, Sherif Ismail, said that continue interrogating the detainee to discover the real reasons that led him to hijack the plane of EgyptAir.