Egypt hands life sentence to plane hijacker
An Egyptian court on Tuesday handed a life sentence to an Egyptian man who hijacked a plane to Cyprus in 2016 using a fake explosive...
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Court reject’s hijacker’s appeal for extradition to Egypt
EGYPTIAN hijacker Saif Eldin Mustafa’s habeas corpus appeal, by which he claimed being unlawfully detained after applying for political asylum, was rejected by the Supreme...
Egyptair hijacker to appeal extradition
The appeal to the extradition of an Egyptian man, who last March hijacked a domestic Egyptair flight, wearing a fake suicide belt and engaging in...
Hijacker to appeal extradition (Updated)
Nicosia District Court on Friday approved the request by Egypt to extradite Seif Eldin Mustafa to stand trial in connection with the hijacking of an...
Court rejects UK professor’s testimony in hijacker case
Nicosia District Court on Thursday refused to hear evidence from a Cambridge University professor in defence of Seif Eddin Mustafa, the Egyptian hijacker fighting an...
Court rules against teleconference testimony in hijacker case
Nicosia District court Friday postponed the extradition hearing of an Egyptian man wanted for hijacking an EgyptAir flight that was diverted to Larnaca, turning down...
Hijacker extradition hearing postponed pending expert testimony
By Eleni Lazarou Nicosia District court on Tuesday postponed the extradition hearing of an Egyptian man wanted for hijacking an EgyptAir flight that was diverted...
Investigators download crashed EgyptAir jet’s flight data
Investigators have downloaded data from the flight data recorder on EgyptAir flight MS804 and are preparing to analyse it, Egypt’s investigation committee said on Wednesday....
Data files from crashed EgyptAir plane sent back to Egypt
Data files from crashed EgyptAir flight MS804 were sent to Egypt on Tuesday after one of the plane’s black box flight recorders was repaired in...
Hijacker wants to stay in ‘5-star prison’
SEIF Eldin Mustafa, who is fighting extradition to his native Egypt for the hijacking of an internal flight in March, expressed on Friday his preference...
Hijacker pleads against extradition to Egypt
Seif Eldin Mustafa, the hijacker of an Egyptair plane that was diverted to Larnaca in late March, pleaded with a judge on Thursday to deny...
Crashed EgyptAir jet flight recorders severely damaged
The memory units of both flight recorders from crashed EgyptAir flight MS804 are severely damaged and will require “lots of time and effort” to fix,...
Egyptian hijacker’s wife tells court he was always in and out of prison
The Nicosia court heard Friday that the hijacker of the Egyptair plane that was diverted to Larnaca on March 29 was only out of prison...
Second flight recorder on crashed Egyptair flight retrieved (Update 1)
A second flight recorder has been retrieved from the crashed EgyptAir flight MS804, containing data from aircraft systems which could shed light on what brought...
Main locations of EgyptAir wreckage identified by deep ocean vessel
The main locations of wreckage from the EgyptAir jet that crashed in the eastern Mediterranean last month have been identified by a vessel owned by...
Security hoax forces EgyptAir plane to make emergency landing in Uzbekistan (Updated)
An EgyptAir passenger plane en route from Cairo to Beijing was forced to make an emergency landing in Uzbekistan on Wednesday after receiving a security...
Hijacker’s lawyer questions legitimacy of Egyptian government
A lawyer fighting the extradition of the man who hijacked a domestic EgyptAir flight three months ago, diverting it to Larnaca, has questioned the legitimacy...
EgyptAir black box search zone narrowed after signal detected – source
The search zone for the crashed EgyptAir jet has been narrowed to 2 km from 5 km after a vessel picked up a signal from...
Egypt’s Sisi says investigation to EgyptAir crash will take time (Updated)
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Sunday that an investigation into the cause of an EgyptAir plane crash could take a long time but...
French investigators say smoke reported on EgyptAir jet before crash
An EgyptAir jet sent a series of signals indicating that smoke had been detected on board before it crashed into the Mediterranean on Thursday, France’s...