CAIRO (Sputnik) — The crew of a hijacked EgyptAir plane includes only Egyptian citizens, the airline said Tuesday.
Earlier in the day, the EgyptAir passenger flight MS181 en route from Egypt’s Alexandria to Cairo was hijacked by a single male suicide bomber with at least 60 people on board and subsequently landed in Cyprus' Larnaca airport.
"All crew member of the hijacked aircraft are Egyptians," the airline told RIA Novosti.
The Cypriot Foreign Ministry says several foreigners remain on board the hijacked EgyptAir commercial jet that landed in Larnaca, while European Parliament President Martin Schulz claimed all passengers had been released from the aircraft.
