Klyde Takes Aim, AGAIN, At USAir

"Thanks to a massively botched job, they cannot be flown when there is a cloud in the sky," said Edward Leigh, chairman of the British parliament's accounts committee. Instead of desperately needed helicopters, the MOD (Ministry of Defense) might as well have bought eight turkeys." Source: Edward Leigh, Conservative member of the British Parliament, lamenting the grounding of eight American-built Chinook helicopters, which were supposed to be in the air over Iraq right now. The eight power-lifting helicopters, valued at $476 million, suffer from a software glitch -- the navigation programming doesn't work. The Ministry of Defense says it'll be 2007 before those aircraft are ready to fly -- if the UK decides to fix the glitch.

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