Yesterday a 737 took off from South Darfur (Southwest Sudan), headed for Khartoum. After the mid-air hijacking, the plane was diverted to an old WWII British airbase in a remote area of Lybia (just bordering Sudan & Egypt). They demanded refueling so that they could make it to Paris, France. The Sudan gov’t has said the hijackers were Darfur rebels, which has been denied by everyone else.

After many hours, the hijackers released the passengers, keeping the flight staff. Fuel was being refused (it might not have even been available at that airstrip). Recently the hijackers have given up. It’s feared that some may have escaped detection, blending in with the passengers when they were released.

News and info is very slow to come out due to the very remote location of the airstrip.