Hijacked Sudan plane lands at a London airport .  STANSTED , England 1996-08-27  A hijacked Sudan Airways plane carrying 199 passengers and crew landed at Stansted airport just outside London early on Tuesday morning after flying from Cyprus , eyewitnesses said .  The Airbus 310 Flight 150 , which was hijacked on Monday evening on its way from Khartoum to the Jordanian capital Amman , landed at 4.30 a.m. ( 0330 GMT ) after a flight of more than four hours .  At least one of the unidentified hijackers was apparently armed with grenades and TNT and threatened to blow the plane up in [START_ENT] Cyprus [END_ENT] unless it was refuelled so they could fly to Britain to claim political asylum .  " They will surrender the passengers there and surrender themselves , " police spokesman Glafcos Xenos told reporters at Cyprus 's Larnaca airport .  Security was tight at Stansted airport , which is about 30 miles ( 50 km ) northeast of the capital .  Stansted has been designated as the preferred option for handling hijackings in southern England because it is more remote than Heathrow and Gatwick , London 's two major airports , and handles less air traffic .
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