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Friday, February 14, 2014

Britain grounds Voyager military fleet after in-flight incident

Voyager AirTankerBritain has grounded its fleet of Airbus-made Voyager military aircraft after one of the large tanker planes plummeted several thousand feet during a flight to Afghanistan.

The fleet is part of one of Britain's most expensive defence equipment projects, under which it leases 14 Voyager jets from the Airbus-led AirTanker consortium in a 14 billion pound ($23 billion) contract.

The Voyager, the largest aircraft in the Royal Air Force (RAF) fleet, is a converted Airbus A330-200 which can refuel fighters or carry troops or medical evacuees in a normal cabin and can carry 291 troops.

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