PALMA DE MAJORCA, Spain () -- Three Algerians who hijacked a civil aircraft on a domestic flight and forced it to fly to Majorca were being questioned by a Spanish judge Monday after surrendering to police, local officials said.


The three men, said to be in their 20s, burst into the cockpit of the Fokker 27 plane carrying 35 passengers en route from Algiers to Ouargla, 550 kilometers to the south in the Sahara desert.


They diverted the plane to Palma and threatened to blow it up if their demands, which included releasing political prisoners in Algeria, resuming elections interrupted in 1991 and refueling the plane, were not met. Spanish police refused to accede to the demands and the hijackers gave themselves up.