Diplomats are working frantically to get an Air Corps plane back home — after it became stranded in Africa during a top secret mission to evacuate Army officers, it has emerged.
This paper can reveal that the €5 million PC-12, along with its five-strong crew, has been stuck in an east African airport for almost a week — thanks to red tape connected to a hush-hush flight to rescue three Army personnel from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The officers were on a peacekeeping mission there, but the level of violence on international military personnel saw Defence Forces bosses order the secret mission to evacuate the soldiers last week.
