According to the Ministry of Civil Aviation and the Egyptian police hijacked Egypt Air and 56 passengers on board an aircraft, in addition to a crew of seven people, was on a trip from Alexandria to Cairo and force it to land at Lana Airport, Cyprus.Furthermore, according to state media in Cyprus to release between 30 and 40 passengers of the hijacked Egyptian plane. While Ailment Egypt Air calculated on Twitter the release of all the passengers of the hijacked plane except for the crew and 5 foreigners.The correspondent of "Arab" in Cairo indicated that the plane was heading from the Burk Al Arab airport in Alexandria to Cairo, was the kidnapper, who threatened not yet submitted information be pleased with him captain available as wearing an explosive belt. It pointed out that the event messaging pilot called "life sentences".In some of the details, sources with the Ministry of the Egyptian Civil Aviation, said that the control tower received a signal from the "Omar Jamal," the commander of Egypt trip flight number 181 flying from Burk Al Arab to Cairo benefit of having been subjected to kidnapping, and asked the kidnappers to go to Lana, Cyprus airport, and was due to the arrival of the plane an Airbus 320 to Cairo in the seventh quarter of Tuesday morning.An official Egyptian source for "Net" It was set up an operations room in Cairo and the other in Cyprus to follow up the situation first hand and to inform the political leadership on all developments as Sam eh Showery, Egyptian Foreign Minister telephoned the Ambassador of Egypt in Cyprus, where he was asked to form an operations room at the headquarters of Cairo embassy and inform all developments.For its part, the Cypriot police said that the kidnappers had contacted the control tower at 08:30 (05:30 GMT) and allowed the plane to land at 08:50, adding that the kidnappers did not declare their demands immediately, and that a crisis cell was sent to the airport.
