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Cyprus airport hostage drama ends

by Marketplace Staff

Mar 29, 2016

An EgyptAir plane was taken over after a passenger claimed to be wearing a suicide explosive belt.

A man climbs out of the cockpit window of an EgyptAir Airbus A-320 parked at the tarmac of Larnaca airport after it was hijacked and diverted to Cyprus on March 29, 2016.

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