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On March 29, 2016, a man called Seif Eldin Mustafa, 58, came up with the stupid idea to hijack a plane in the name of love.

The 81 passengers aboard Egypt Air flight MS181 got quite a scare when the Airbus 320 en-route from Alexandria to Cairo when Seif who was armed with a fake suicide belt demanded that the plane be diverted to the island of Cyprus, where his ex-wife and mother of his four children lived.

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