Libyan Defection Told
From Associated Press
CAIRO —
A Libyan air force officer split away from a five-helicopter squadron flying to Sudan, landed his craft in southern Egypt and requested asylum, a senior security source said Thursday. The incident was the fourth defection-motivated landing by Libyan military aircraft in Egypt in just over two years.
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