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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

RAF bomber destroyed £10m spy plane to stop Taliban discovering its secrets

An RAF bomber deliberately destroyed a £10million British spy plane to prevent terrorists accessing its secrets.

The unmanned surveillance system, the Reaper UAV, crash landed in Afghanistan during a covert operation.

Special forces were dropped in to the crash site by helicopter to recover the plane's top secret data - believed to include a high-intensity camera and computer memory chips.

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