Two Libyan men who hijacked a plane from Libya to Malta and threatened to blow it up have surrendered peacefully, allowing 118 passengers and crew to leave the aircraft before walking out alongside the last of the crew.
The Afriqiyah flight was travelling from Sabha to Tripoli before diverting to Malta.
The Maltese prime minister later announced the weapons used by the hijackers were in fact fake.
The hijackers of Afriqiyah Airways plane which was forced to land in Malta have been named as Suhah Mussa and Ahmed Ali, the pilot told a Libyan Channel TV network
The pilot said they were Libyans in their twenties.
The pilot said the men were seeking political asylum in Europe and wanted to set up a political party called "the New Fateh."
Fateh is a reference to former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, who led Fateh revolution after his coup in 1969.
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