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A man appeared in a Cypriot court on Wednesday facing charges of hijacking, illegal possession of explosives and kidnapping.

Seif Eddin Mustafa surrendered to police after a six-hour stand-off on board an EgyptAir flight on Tuesday.

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He flashed a V-sign from the back seat of a police car as he arrived at court.

The suspect told police the hijacking was a plan to see his Cypriot former wife and their four children after Egypt’s government barred him from travelling abroad.

“What’s someone supposed to do when he hasn’t seen his wife and children in 24 years and the Egyptian government won’t let him?” he said.

But his ex-wife described him as an “extremely dangerous man” who used drugs, terrorized his family and beat her and their children.

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Meanwhile, some of the 55 passengers described the scenes aboard the Airbus 320 as they arrived home.

There was the man who kept calm throughout the hijacking only to lose his cool when Cypriot police confiscated his frozen chicken, and the opera singer whose trip home became an international terror scare.