text: All passengers freed from Sudanese hijack plane . STANSTED , England 1996-08-27 All passengers held hostage aboard a hijacked Sudanese Airways plane diverted to London 's Stansted airport carrying 199 passengers and crew have been freed , an airport spokeswoman said on Tuesday . Eyewitnesses said six crew members had also been allowed to leave the aircraft . Airport spokeswoman Rona Young confirmed that all the passengers had left the aircraft . Police said a number of crew members had left the aircraft and said details would be given at a news conference expected to be held in the next few minutes by the local police chief . The passengers were released in batches during the course of the morning after the Airbus A310 landed at Stansted , having been diverted from Cyprus . The aircraft was hijacked on a flight from Khartoum to Amman by six or seven men , who police say may be Iraqis . -- London Newsroom + 00--44-171-542-7947