PANIC has been reported on an EgyptAir flight after an “agitated” passenger is said to have assaulted crew and stormed the cabin of a plane.

The plane, carrying 78 passengers, appears to have been flying from Oman’s capital Muscat to Cairo, Egypt, when the incident took place.

Just 26 minutes into the four hour flight the distressed passenger is said to have attacked crew before he was apprehended.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether the incident was terrorism-related.

It is believed the plane returned to Muscat after he was apprehended and the crew handed the passenger over to the police.

#BREAKING: Unknown individuals attempted to break into cockpit of @EGYPTAIR aircraft from #Oman bound for #Cairo, but were stopped – reports pic.twitter.com/7gCOQdOK6G — Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) March 6, 2018

The officials say the passenger, who is Egyptian, was not armed.

Egyptian authorities have questioned the crew and the other passengers about the incident.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to the media.

In 2016 EgyptAir flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo crashed into the Mediterranean.

Sixty-six passengers were killed in the crash, which French authorities believed may have been caused by the pilot charging his iPad in the cockpit.

More to come.

This story originally appeared in The Sun and has been republished with permission.