RAF Hercules pick up two Maltese in the desert
RAF Hercules aircraft picked up two Maltese oil workers from the desert in their second daring rescue from Libya yesterday.
Three aircraft were involved in the rescue, with one of them suffering slight damage from light ground fire. No one was injured. 150 workers were rescued.
Special forces of the SAS are believed to have been involved in the operation.
Another Maltese worker was rescued in a similar operation on Saturday.
See details of the operation and footage of the arrival of one of the Hercules at
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Ganni Ellul
Feb 28th 2011, 13:01
Where is a nice polite thank you from Graffiti? Where are the bloggers complaining that we are back to the sixties with a British military base in Malta.Had Mintoff re newed the defence agreement with a real country which has real soldiers and Navy then that rat wouldnt have dared stop us drilling for oil.
We now suffer the consequencies, and it is no use any of you come here on the paper you so much detested and say that we have had other prime ministers after Mintoff who could have drilled for oil, because the die was cast .
Jeffrey Muscat
Feb 28th 2011, 11:54
well done to the SAS --
thanks a lot for your help
J.Debono
Feb 28th 2011, 11:46
Many thanks UK!!!
Matheu Caruana
Feb 28th 2011, 11:35
Even though the RAF and the SAS are doing a very good job, isn't publicising these unauthorisied landings making them more public and evident and with a higher possibility that other landings become riskier since they are on the lookout.
Alan Cordina
Feb 28th 2011, 11:47
Spot on Matthew.
I am an avid military enthusiast. It is my keen interest, maybe I can even call it a passion. And I have been (detail) reading about these such ops, since I can ever remember (young age). But these detailed reports, almost minute by minute, as they happen, on the newspapers, are way out of league, very dangerous (to the "crews") like you very well wrote, and rest assured that the "crews" themselves are not liking it !
Alan Cordina
Feb 28th 2011, 14:21
My only suspicion is, that the authorities are deliberately trickling these pieces of info to the press ..... so that they keep the readers happy with the good news and so reduce the ever present segment of us Maltese that keep on honking away about neutrality and lambasting the allowing of military presence at our airport, happy ! ....... because that kind of nonsense and nuisance can be damaging from a different angle too. So its a kind of a compromise.
John Busuttil
Feb 28th 2011, 11:33
Thank you United Kingdom for your vital help in bring out Maltese back to their loved ones.
Jesmond Micallef
Feb 28th 2011, 11:29
Nice night shot of the RAF C-130J aircraft. Here, have a look at this youtube video which highlights the versatility of this classical workhorse of aerial transportation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjNyQvhsQE8&feature=related
K.Anastasi
Feb 28th 2011, 11:19
Then you hear bloggers against the SAS operating on our soil because we are neutral, well if it had not been for them those 2 Maltese men would still be there and in danger.
Well Done and thank you is in order!
D.Galea
Feb 28th 2011, 11:57
Being neutral is not being against, check your dictionary.
K.Anastasi
Feb 28th 2011, 12:50
@D.Galea
Maybe instead of me checking the dictionary, you could read my post again .... as I refer to bloggers " as they" and not myself.
A. Zahra
Feb 28th 2011, 13:23
@ r galea.
Have you not read Reno Calleja's comment.