Footage emerges of hijacker and British passenger posing for photograph

Footage has emerged of the moment a British passenger casually strolled up the aisle of a hijacked EgyptAir plane and posed for the photograph with the man holding up the flight with what, at the time, was believed to be a suicide belt.

In the clip, filmed by a Dutch passenger, a steward can be heard asking the Briton, Ben Innes, to come up the aisle, adding: “You want to take a photo with him?”

Innes replies “yeah, yeah ... is that OK?” before walking up and standing beside the hijacker, Seif Eldin Mustafa, as well as two stewards.

As the two men pose beside each other, the photo is taken, before the steward asks: “Another one?” The phone is then handed back to Innes, who appears to express satisfaction after examining the shot. Other passengers giggle as they look up the aisle.