Fast taxi tests which had to be carried out this morning by the two Libyan mirages in preparation for their departure next week had to be aborted after technical problems were encountered during engine runs.

The mirages arrived in Malta last February carrying two pilots who defected at the start of the Libyan revolution. The two pilots, who spent seven months here, returned to Malta yesterday after flight training in France.

They came to take the mirages back to their home country.

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