Libyan Mirages undergoing overhaul
Picture: Ian Pace
The two Mirage F1 fighters of the Libyan air force which have been in Malta for the past 11 months, were today towed to the Medavia facility at the airport for an overhaul.
Pilots and technicians arrived yesterday to prepare the aircraft for their return to Libya.
Sources said they will be flown back next month, either on February 17, the day marking the start of the Libyan uprising, on February 21, when the planes were flown to Malta by pilots who refused to bomb fellow Libyans.
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aldo Attard
Jan 11th 2012, 11:58
Is it TRUE what I heard that if we just managed to sell only one of them, all the Malta debt / investment would be stricken off?
Than it must be true what they say that WAR is a big ASSET.
Medidate personas, Medidate personas.
F. Pisani
Jan 11th 2012, 09:06
The Mirages in Malta show 1 very important thing. AFM is not prepared for air defiance so it's a good thing they are leaving so that the ugly truth is once again burried under the carpet.
Charles Sammut. (NY)
Jan 11th 2012, 07:46
Now you see them....now you don't..
Simon Cassar
Jan 11th 2012, 08:20
Its a mirage ;)
Please choose the reason of your report below: