An aircraft MS181, with 81 people onboard, flying from Alexandria to Cairo was hijacked on 29 March. The passenger plane, belonging to EgyptAir, was headed to Cairo, when the pilot was reportedly forced to divert the aircraft to Cyprus.
The AirBus 320 aircraft had 81 passengers onboard, Egyptian Airport officials told PTI.
State-run television channel of Egypt named the suspected hijacker as Ibrahim Samaha.
The hijacked plane has reportedly landed at Larnaka Airport in Cyprus. There are suspicions of the presence of a bomb onboard. Egypt civil aviation has revealed that a hijacker threatened to detonate explosives attached to his suicide belt.
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