Why is this man on the right field , key as a 26 - twelvemonth - former British surety named Ben Innes , posing with Seifedeen Mustafa , the man who hijack an EgyptAir flight today ? Nobody knows yet . But if it were n’t for the simulated felo-de-se belt , this look like it ’d be a pretty funny sidekick clowning .
Mustafa ’s “ suicide belt ” turned out to be a hoax , but he do to get the Cairo - bound flight disport to Cyprus . At this power point , our best guess about the strange photo is that Innes simply does not give a roll in the hay .
“ I have no musical theme why he took the selfie , ” his roommate told theDaily Mail . “ But I imagine he probably volunteered to take it as he ’s not afraid to shy away from anything . ”
Neither man appear distressed , despite the fact that this pic was likely taken near the oddment of the 6 - hour repulsion with police in Cyprus . Mustafa hold 62 passenger hostage , but it ’s believed that Innes was one of the last three to be released .
Innes allegedly share the photograph below with a friend via WhatsApp , though the screenshot below has yet to be independently confirmed .
It ’s certainly possible that Innes knew that the bomb was fake when the exposure was take in . But the photo is still a foreign document for future coevals .
People of the future will no doubt hit the books this moving-picture show as the tipping point for humanity , when the last fuck was given . I guess if you ’re front to take photos of your vacation , a hijacker photo - op make about as much sense as something like aselfie at Auschwitzor dressing up as abad Mussolini impersonator .
We all make weird choices on Spring Break . We wo n’t judge .
Update , 10:45pm : Ben Innes spoke with The Sun about why he contain the picture .
“ I ’m not indisputable why I did it , I just threw carefulness to the wind while trying to stay upbeat in the face of adversity , ” he toldThe Sun . “ I figured if his bomb calorimeter was veridical I ’d nothing to lose anyway , so deal a chance to get a stuffy look at it . ”
So our supposition was right . This guy wire does not give a fuck . He involve someone from the cabin crew to translate for him and a escape attendant take the picture .
“ We moved towards the door as he went to the back of the plane — then we carry for it , expecting the aircraft to detonate , ” he toldThe Sun . “ When we got to a safe distance we laughed out loud with rest period . ”
And if you ’ve been take on issue with the fact that his roommate is call it a selfie , Ben ’s mom agrees with you .
“ All we can say is that the pictorial matter is intelligibly not a selfie as everyone has been distinguish it , ” she say . “ you may clearly see that it is not Ben who is rent the picture . ”
Update , April 1 , 2016 , 12:20am : Newsweek has obtained both another picture of a flying tender , Niera Atef , posing with the highjacker , and an account from one of the carbon monoxide - pilot of the plane , Hamad el Kaddah . He contends that they were get photo with him in order tosneak them to assurance :
Qaddah , the last person on the airplane with the highjacker and the pilot visualise jump out of a cockpit window , enounce that the crew was not laughing at the hijacker or defecate luminance of the situation but tricking Mustafa so they could relay his appearance and his equipment to Egyptian and Cypriot authorities .
“ I was sending everything back to Cairo and sending everything to Cyprus via Whatsapp . So I was just taking pictures of him . One of the gentle wind hostesses took a picture with him , ” he assure Newsweek .
“ She rent the photo but we were lying to him , like ‘ oh right , can I have a picture with you ? ’ So we can have how he looks , what he is wearing . We did this , then we took it . Her name is Naira . She did this illusion . ”
So , okay , that make mother wit . But the photo from the British dude tell his friends to turn on the word was n’t incisively a sombre grounds - gather maneuver , nor did he claim it was one after he elude . But at least there were a yoke of responsible adults on that plane .
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