[ad#200×200]Both Tiger Pilots Confirmed Dead: THE universally accepted “Lucky Seven” has turned to LTTE’s disadvantage by completely over powering the seventh abortive aerial attack targeting COLOMBO while dousing the last nail of the LTTE air wing’s coffin since the LTTE miserably lost both aircrafts during aerial attacks on Friday (20) late night.
The first light aircraft, though believed to have dropped a bomb on the Inland Revenue Department Headquarters on Sir Chittampalam Gardner Mawatha, has apparently crashed on to the floors between third and twelfth (top) amids Air Defence System which might have struck the hovering aircraft. Detection of parts of strewn pieces of flesh, said to be belonging to the Tiger (LTTE) pilot found on some floors proved that the pilot would have lost control of it after hit by Air Defence System, initial Police investigation have reveled.
Investigating teams have so far collected one arm belonging to the Tiger pilot who had been blown to pieces along with the crash or counter fire and the explosion that followed, initial investigation said. Eye witnesses some of who were in the canteen on an upper floor, confirmed the crashing of the aircraft above their heads produced a thundering bang that terrified them. The extent of the damage to the Inland Revenue Building yet to be evaluated. Defence Secretary Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Minister Keheliya Rambukwella, Commander of the Air Force Air Martial Roshan Gunathilake visited the scene in Colombo as the fire fighters were struggling to douse the flames that were still burning on the twelfth floor of the building.
Minister Rambukwella tolled the Media that he saw how the LTTE air craft was turn a straight cure towards the Inland Revenue building site after it came along the shore closer to the north Colombo dockyard. “We were waiting it to come as electricity was cut off as a precautionary measure. All of us were alert and it took some time for us to know the exact destiny befallen to aircraft. It is the Air Defence System that has made it to crash and ruin”, Minister Rambukwella said.
The other aircraft that flew to KATUNAYAKE area with the express view of causing a more extensive damage, has had a large quantity of explosives and powerful bombs inside it. Initial investigations said that the pilot himself who was found intact has had a large quantity of explosives and bombs inside the aircraft. The dead Tiger pilot was carrying two cyanide capsules and a powerful bomb with his seat when the Air Defence System brought it down in to a marshy plot of land by the side of the Air Force camp in Katunayake. It is also believed the dead pilot had lost its control over the air craft as volleys of fire started pouring on the sky put down LTTE air craft.
Air traffic in and out of Sri Lanka has not been hampered expect for a very few hours, soon after the Air Defence System activated. Investigations are in progress.
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