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Nigeria, British spy plane to help schoolgirls search breaks down

Waddington, England - The Sentinel R-1 is planned to be used for its advanced ground scanning radar

A Royal Air Force (RAF) spy plane sent to join the international hunt for more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants in the town of Chibok on April 15 (AVIONEWS) had been grounded en route due to a fault. The Sentinel R-1 planned to be used for its advanced ground scanning radar had taken off from Waddington base in east England but was forced to divert to Senegal with a "Technical...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1160304
Rome, Italy, 05/20/2014 18:44
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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