His mother was not pleased.
This is the moment passenger Ben Innes asked Seif Eldin Mustafa to join him in a photo about a plane that Mustafa was hijacking at the time.
Footage of the incident was filmed by Dutch passenger Huub Helthuis, and everyone looks very relaxed despite the fact that Mustafa claimed to have a suicide vest strapped to him.
Bizarre.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTtljQZcYug
Clip via Storyful News/Huub Helthuis
"You want to take a photo with him?" a steward asks Innes, who replies "Yeah, yeah... is that OK?"
A stewardess takes the photo and hands the phone back to Innes, who seems happy with it.
Of course, the whole incident ended without any injuries, with Mustafa pulling the stunt in order to see his ex-wife and family living in Cyprus. The suicide vest turned out to be fake.
"When someone hasn’t seen his family for 24 years and wants to see his wife and children, and the Egyptian government won’t let him, what is he supposed to do?" Mustafa told the authorities, according to the New York Times.
