An oil worker who took a picture with the EgyptAir hijacker has been caught on film snatching a phone from a camerwoman.
The footage has emerged in a short clip from ITV News as Ben Innes, 26, arrived back into the UK at Manchester Airport yesterday.
Innes, who works for engineering firm TWMA, sent the now infamous image to his flatmate in Aberdeen earlier this week when he was caught up in the drama.
The Leeds-born oil worker was en route from Alexandria to Cairo when a man identifying himself as Seif Eldin Mustafa hijacked the Airbus A320.
The footage shows Innes refusing to answer questions before grabbing the camerawoman’s phone.
She is heard saying to him: “That’s my property, what are you doing?”, before he replies with an expletive.
He is then seen walking off with the phone, before eventually giving it back.
Innes had previously told The Sun newspaper it was the “best selfie ever” and he took it because he was “trying to stay cheerful in the face of adversity”.
Prior to the incident,he was working out of north-east engineering firm TWMA’s Alexandria base. He posed for the picture with the hijacker at the height of the drama, attracting headlines across the globe.