OK, so maybe it’s a little crazy of me to be in Sudan…

Egypt denied permission for the plane to land.

Two hijackers of a Sudanese plane flown to Libya have given themselves up in the desert town of Kufra.

The surrender comes almost 24 hours after they seized the plane, shortly after it left Nyala in Darfur.

The crew have also been freed – earlier all 95 passengers on board the Sun Air Boeing 737 had been released.

There are some reports that the hijackers were members of a Darfur
rebel group but this was strongly denied by the group’s leader.

“The hijackers surrendered without any violence and the crew are
safe and sound,” a Libyan official said, according to the AFP news
agency.

A Sudanese diplomat in Kufra told the AP news agency that the two men were taken into the airport building, looking exhausted. Mohammed al-Balla Othman said the men had requested asylum in Libya. Sudan had earlier demanded they be extradited.

The man had earlier demanded fuel to fly to France and one official said they wanted to be given refugee status there.

The BBC’s Rana Jawad in Tripoli says a plane is being prepared to transport the freed passengers to Khartoum. She says that video footage on Libya’s state-run television showed the released passengers in the airport lounge looking relieved but tired. “The night was terrifying and difficult,” one man said. “I thank the Libyan authorities for their efforts which allowed us to be freed.”

Another said the hijackers had been armed with pistols. Before the passengers were freed, some fainted after the plane’s air-conditioning failed, the pilot said.

The plane had been on its way to the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, on Tuesday, when the men took control.

It initially tried to land in Cairo, Egypt, where it was denied permission to land.