CAIRO, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- The hijacked Sudanese passenger plane did not send any request to enter the Egyptian airspace, head of the Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority (ECAA) said on Tuesday hours after the hijack.

    The pilot of the hijacked airliner did not contact the Egyptianair traffic towers to ask for entering Egypt's airspace and landing in any Egyptian airport, the Egyptian official MENA news agency quoted ECAA chief Emad Salam as saying.

    According to earlier reports, an Sudanese passenger plane was hijacked Tuesday afternoon at Niyala, the capital city of South Darfur State in the restive western Sudanese region of Darfur, has landed in Libya.

    The Dubai-based Al Arabiya TV said the plane, which was carrying 87 passengers and was hijacked by a Sudanese man, flew to al-Kufrah to refuel and the hijacker wanted the plane to fly to Cairo.

    Libya's Civil Aviation Authority has confirmed the plane had landed at al-Kufrah, an oasis town in the country's southeast, Libya's state news agency Jana reported.