Man's photo with EgyptAir hijacker
When you see a man with what appears to be explosives strapped to him on a plane, what do you do?
A man who was held hostage on the EgyptAir plane took a grinning photo with the hijacker on board.
Ben Innes from Leeds in the UK snapped a photo with the Egyptian man who is now being held after hijacking a domestic flight.
Ben said, "I figured if his bomb was real I’d nothing lose anyway, so took a chance to get a closer look at it. I got one of the cabin crew to translate for me and asked him if I could do a selfie with him [sic]."
Officials claim hijacker of Flight MS181, Seif Eldin Mustafa is psychologically unstable and the incident was not being investigated as an act of terrorism.
He allegedly forced the flight – which was intended to land in Cairo – to redirect to Larnaca so he could pass a message to his ex-wife, who lives in Cyprus.
Do you think this was a perfectly acceptable thing to do or do you think Ben Innes put the other passengers at risk by engaging with the hijacker?
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