A hijacked Sudanese plane has landed safely in the Chadian capital N'Djamena and all 103 passengers are safe.
An airline official said the Sudanese hijacker had requested asylum from the French embassy.
The Air West domestic Sudanese flight was diverted by an armed Sudanese man who demanded the Boeing 737 fly on to N'Djamena.
The plane was headed to el-Fasher, the main town in Sudan's western Darfur region.
'The plane has landed ... the hijacker was met by the French ambassador and all the passengers are safe,' said a commercial director for the airline.
It was not clear how the hijacker got on board the plane with a weapon, but Sudanese security is said to be often lax, especially on internal flights.
In 2004 Eritreans seeking asylum hijacked a plane travelling from Libya to Eritrea and forced it to land in Khartoum airport. Sudan eventually granted the hijackers political asylum.
