EgyptAir Flight 181

An Egyptian cargo aircraft which was forced to conduct an emergency landing at Athens International Airport on Friday morning due to a mechanical failure departed for its intended destination of Cologne a few hours later.
The pilot of the Egyptair Cargo flight 332 requested an emergency landing after seeing smoke in the cockpit. 

An Egyptian court on Tuesday handed a life sentence to an Egyptian man who hijacked an airliner to Cyprus in 2016 using a fake explosive belt.

The charges included using intimidation and threats to seize a plane and abduct its passengers for a terrorist purpose, according to a judicial source.

Seif Eldin Mustafa has the right to appeal within 60 days.

Egypt's chief prosecutor says Cyprus has extradited the hijacker of an EgyptAir plane that was diverted to the Mediterranean island in 2016.

Prosecutor Nabil Sadek said late Saturday that Egyptian police have taken custody of Seif Eddin Mustafa in the Cypriot capital, Nicosia.

An Egyptian man who hijacked a domestic EgyptAir flight in 2016 and ordered it to land in Cyprus has been extradited to his homeland after giving up a drawn-out legal fight, authorities said Sunday.

The man accused of hijacking an EgyptAir plane and forcing it to land in Greek Cyprus was remanded into police custody for eight days during his first court appearance on March 30.

While the whole world was holding its breath and hoping for a bloodless outcome of the EgyptAir MS181 plane hijacking in Cyprus, one British passenger on board the plane seemed unfazed from all the hype and was taking a selfie with 59-year old eif Eldin Mustafa!

Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades ruled out that the hijacking of the EgyptAir plane on Tuesday constituted a terrorist attack, saying that the hijacker seemed to have personal motives.

Instead of conducting the scheduled domestic flight MS181 between Alexandria and Cairo, the Airbus A320 landed at the airport in Larnaca after being hijacked and forced to divert to Cyprus.

An airplane of EgyptAir conducting domestic flight MS181 has landed at the airport of Larnaca on Tuesday after being hijacked and ordered to divert its route to Cyprus.

It is believed that there is at least one armed man on board, with the hijacker claiming he was wearing a suicide belt.

Authorities arrested the hijacker of an Egyptian airliner that was diverted to Greek Cyprus on March 29, after the plane's passengers and crew were able to escape unharmed.
 

A man thought to be strapped with explosives hijacked an Egyptian plane on a flight between Alexandria and Cairo on March 29 and forced it to land in Greek Cyprus, Egyptian officials said.

After the EgyptAir plane landed at Larnaca airport, the hijacker released all the people onboard except four foreign passengers and the crew, EgyptAir said.