A photo has been posted on social media, with a female flight attendant posing with the hijacker of the EgyptAir flight MS181.
Previously, a photo of Ben Innes went viral on social media, a photo of the British man and the hijacker.
Ben Innes, 26, asked an air hostess to take a photo of him and the hijacker, Seif El Din Mustafa, which he later hailed as “the best selfie ever” (although, this was not a selfie, because the photo was taken by some other person – you can see both his hands).
Speaking to Good Morning America Mr Innes explains why:
“I thought of several ways in which I could further interact with him, of which taking a selfie was one.”
As the interviewer asks him whether there was a “strategy” behind taking the photo, he said: “Believe me, it was a very thought through process.”
“I wanted him to understand I was a human, (that) I wasn’t just a nameless, faceless victim – that I was a real living person.”
“I wanted to get a better look at the device (and) at him. I needed to understand if he had other weapons and if there were any hijackers with him that I hadn’t seen.”
No regrets
Asked if he had any regrets calling it the ‘best selfie ever’, he replies: “I have no regrets whatsoever about my actions on the aeroplane.”
The newly revealed photo shows a member of the cabin crew, Naira Atef, smiling and standing next to to the hijacker.
The 58-year-old hijacker displays what appears to be a suicide bomb belt.
Stockholm syndrome, or capture-bonding, is a psychological phenomenon described in 1973 in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors, sometimes to the point of defending and identifying with the captors, Wikipedia says.
These feelings are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, who essentially mistake a lack of abuse from their captors for an act of kindness.
The FBI’s Hostage Barricade Database System shows that roughly eight percent of victims show evidence of Stockholm syndrome.
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