57 DIVISION troops, commanded by Major General JAGATH DIAS Wednesday (13) unearthed, what confirmed to be a stock of an LTTE light aircraft accessories from PUTHUKKUDIYIRUPPU east area, ending a series of numerous speculative theories, stories, and arguments over LTTE’s air capability.
Wednesday’s unexpected recovery of one four cylinder engine, three propellers, one aircraft radio set, five aircraft main wheels, three nose wheels, two partly-used main wheels, four pilot headphones, three battery chargers, three digital meters, three computer graphic manuals, ground marshalling torches, flying (aerial) computers, two flying simulation units, twenty-three runway lights, four head lights, two ordinary runway lights, bolts, transmitters, flying maps, three marine radars, thirty-five high speed boat engines, one water scooter laden with explosives, one aircraft towing carrier, put all theories, regarding LTTE’s air capabilities to an end once for all, since the troops and the Sri Lanka Air Force have by now destroyed the entire LTTE air fleet while debunking their exaggerated theories.
All those aircraft accessories, concealed and kept buried after wrapping them neatly in polythene inside a large coconut grove at the time the troops started digging in with the help of earth moving bachoes.
At the time, this story was pasted, troops led by Major General JAGATH DIAS, General Officer Commanding for 57 Division, Colonel MAHINDA WEERASURIYA, Deputy General Officer Commanding (DGOC) and Colonel SENARATH BANDARA, 572 Brigade Commander were busy excavating the area further for more and more hidden gains.
In the past three years, Air Force fighter craft have shot down three more terrorist light craft.
Sri Lanka Army