The hijacker of an EgyptAir plane is an Egyptian national called Ibrahim Samaha, the state news agency MENA said on Tuesday.
TV naming hijacker of #Egypt plane in #Cyprus as Ibrahim Samaha. Nationality not confirmed but not an uncommon Egyptian name
— Stephen Kalin (@stephenkalin) 29 March 2016
According to Al Ahram, Samaha might be a university teacher from the US State of Atlanta.
An Egyptair passenger plane was hijacked by a man who was said to be wearing a suicide bomb vest Tuesday morning. The jet has landed at the airport in Larnaka, Cyprus, according to the country's state broadcaster.
According to various reports, between 60 and 81 people were on board the hijacked airplane.
