Voyager Aircraft Grounded After Plane Plummets 11.02.14
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Channel: BFBS Forces News · 2014 · News & Politics
The MOD's Voyager transport plane fleet has been grounded after an incident on a flight to Afghanistan. British Forces News has exclusively learnt a plane plummeted 2000 feet while in the air over Turkey. The virtually-new fleet of planes has been grounded, after an as yet unexplained fault that affected a flight on Sunday night, which was carrying 181 military personnel to Afghanistan. In a statement the MOD said: "The MOD can confirm that a Voyager aircraft suffered an in-flight issue on 9 February and as a precaution diverted to an airfield in Turkey. A few passengers received minor injuries in the incident. The safety of all our aircrews and passengers is our paramount concern, therefore, following this incident it has been decided to temporarily suspend military registered Voyager flying while this is fully investigated." Picture: Crown Copyright 2013 / Ministry of Defence / Library
