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Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Four more people leave hijacked plane
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleFour people are seen leaving the hijacked plane in Cyprus. It is not yet clear who the four individuals are, or whether the Egyptian hijacker is among those who left.
One person is seen escaping the plane through the cockpit window.
Four people have just left the plane including one who CLIMBED out the window. pic.twitter.com/qH6Twsd8wX
— Alicia Melville-Smith (@alicia_ms) March 29, 2016
An EgyptAir plane traveling from Alexandria to Cairo was hijacked and taken to Cyprus by a passenger threatening to blow himself up, Egyptian and Cypriot officials said this morning, though the case was ruled not terror amid a standoff on a Larnaca tarmac.
The plane, EgyptAir flight MS181, landed in Larnaca, where the hijacker allowed most of the people on board to disembark, according to officials.
The Times of Israel Community.