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Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Defence in spy plane cover-up

Heron TP MALE UAVDefence covered up the crash of an unmanned spy plane in Afghanistan that left taxpayers with a $1.2 million repair bill.

On June 4 this year, a Canadian-built remotely-piloted Heron aircraft operated by the RAAF crashed short of the airfield at Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan. There were no injuries.

Defence also chose to hide the details of a second Heron crash, this time by an Australian undergoing training in Alberta, Canada, in July. The aircraft was a write-off.

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