This MIGHT just be the craziest selfie anyone’s ever taken, and that’s not an exaggeration. A man named Seif Eldin Mustafa hijacked an EgyptAir flight from Alexandria to Cairo yesterday morning because he wanted to see his ex-wife in Cyprus. And he had a BOMB strapped around his waist.
26-year-old Ben Innes of Leeds, England was a passenger on the flight. And when the flight landed in Cyprus and swarms of cops surrounded it, Ben asked Seif if they could take a picture together. Ben says, “I thought, why not? I figured if his bomb was real, I had nothing to lose anyway, so I took a chance to get a closer look at it.”
Seif was down for a photo, so Ben posed next to him with a grin on his face while a flight attendant took the picture. (Even though he didn’t take the photo himself, it’s a picture he got of himself, so does it qualify as a selfie?)
You get a perfect look at the bomb in the photo, which turned out to be fake, by the way. Seif surrendered after a few hours and he was arrested. An Egyptian official said, “He’s not a terrorist, he’s an idiot.”
(Here’s the selfie.)
Ben Innes from #Aberdeen poses for a picture with #EgyptAir #MS181 hijacker. pic.twitter.com/ywdGYuDWwm
— Paul Smith (@Journo_Paul) March 29, 2016
