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BRIEFS, from 2                                                           A base spokesman, SrA. Thomas Spangler, declined Aug. 17              Indian airline makes huge order for 250 Airbus jets
                                                                      to answer additional questions.                                             ,QGLDQEXGJHWDLUOLQH,QGL*R¿QDOL]HGDQH[FHSWLRQDOO\ODUJH
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said. AP                                                                 The statement says the F-16 Fighting Falcons are assigned to          order for 250 single-aisle Airbus A320neo jets Aug. 17 to keep
                                                                      the 301st Fighter Wing at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base           up with rapid growth in the country’s air travel.
Ceremony held for construction of USS -RKQ).HQQHG\                 Fort Worth, Texas.
   Construction has started on the Navy’s next aircraft carrier.                                                                                  IndiGo, India’s largest domestic airline, had signed a pre-
   A keel-laying ceremony was held Aug. 22 at Newport News               A safety board will investigate the crash. AP                         OLPLQDU\RUGHUODVW\HDUDQG¿UPHGUHFHQWO\$LUEXVVDLGLQD
                                                                                                                                               statement. The manufacturer based in Toulouse, France, called
Shipbuilding in Newport News, Va., for the USS John F. Ken-           /LE\DDVNV$UDEVWDWHVWRKHOSDUPLWVPLOLWDU\WR¿JKW,6               it the biggest order by number of jets that it had ever received.
nedy. It’s the second carrier to be named after the 35th U.S. presi-     Libya’s internationally recognized government is urging fel-
dent.                                                                                                                                             At list prices, the jets would cost $26 billion, though custom-
                                                                      low Arab countries to arm its military so it can face the expand-        ers usually negotiate discounts.
   Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe was among those at the event.        LQJ,VODPLF6WDWHDI¿OLDWHLQWKHFRXQWU\
Kennedy’s daughter, Caroline Kennedy, gave a videotaped speech.                                                                                   6HYHUDO$VLDQORZFRVWFDUULHUVDUHEXLOGLQJXSÀHHWVDPLG
                                                                         The North Africa nation has been under a U.N. arms embargo            growing demand, and both Airbus and rival Boeing have been
   Caroline Kennedy’s initials were welded onto a steel plate that    since 2011, which was renewed in March, but some exemptions              wooing Indian airline companies.
ZLOOEHSHUPDQHQWO\DI¿[HGWRWKHVKLS6KHLVWKHVSRQVRURIWKH    have been allowed.
ship. AP                                                                                                                                          India is expected to become the third largest aviation market
                                                                         Foreign Minister Mohammed al-Dairi told an emergency Arab             globally by 2020, with the number of airline passengers tripling
Iran says it shoots down drone near border with Iraq                  League meeting that Libyans cannot wait for U.N. mediation to            to some 450 million trips per year, as an expanding middle class
   ,UDQ¶VRI¿FLDOIRNA news agency says the military has shot         form a national unity government.                                        trades up from slow train journeys to taking a plane.

down a reconnaissance drone in western Iran near the border with         Libya is deeply split between al-Dairi’s government, based in            7KH$QHRLVDQXSJUDGHGPRUHIXHOHI¿FLHQWYHUVLRQRI
Iraq.                                                                 the east, and the Islamist, militia-backed government in Tripoli.        $LUEXV¶SRSXODU$MHWVXVXDOO\XVHGRQPLGUDQJHÀLJKWVAP

   IRNA quoted Col. Farzad Fereidouni, a local air defense system        Libya’s IS branch has taken advantage of the chaos across the         Pentagon probing alleged distorting of war intelligence
commander, in a report Aug. 22 as saying the unmanned aircraft        country to establish a presence along the central coast.                    The Pentagon’s inspector general is investigating an allegation
was shot down in recent days after it “confronted” the air defense
missile system. He didn’t say which country the drone belonged           Arab League’s chief, Nabil Elaraby, endorsed al-Dairi’s call,         that the military command overseeing the anti-Islamic State cam-
WRRUJLYHVSHFL¿FVRQWKHWLPLQJ                                   urging member states to respond “promptly and effectively.” AP           paign distorted or altered intelligence assessments to exaggerate
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   Iran has claimed to have captured several U.S. drones in recent    Military contractor names employees killed in midair
years, including an advanced RQ-170 Sentinel CIA spy drone in         crash                                                                       7KHRI¿FLDOZDVQRWDXWKRUL]HGWRGLVFXVVWKHSUREHSXEOLFO\
December 2011 and at least three Boeing-designed ScanEagle                                                                                     and so spoke on condition of anonymity.
aircraft.                                                                Military contractor BAE Systems has released the names of
                                                                      its three employees who died when their plane collided midair               7KHLQYHVWLJDWLRQZDV¿UVWGLVFORVHGE\The New York Times.
   Iran said last year it successfully tested its copy of the RQ-170  with another aircraft over Southern California.                          The paper reported that the investigation began after at least one
drone based on one it captured. Tehran says it is also copying the                                                                             civilian Defense Intelligence Agency analyst told authorities he
ScanEagle. AP                                                            The company said Aug. 17 that Carlos Palos, John Kovach               KDGHYLGHQFHWKDWRI¿FLDOVDW86&HQWUDO&RPPDQGZHUHLPSURS-
                                                                      DQG-HII3HUF\ZHUHDPRQJWKH¿YHNLOOHGZKHQWKHLUWZLQHQJLQH         erly reworking conclusions of assessments prepared for policy
7ZR¿JKWHUMHWVFROOLGHRQJURXQGDW1HOOLV$)%                       Sabreliner jet collided with a single-engine Cessna 172 Aug.             makers, including President Barack Obama.
   %DVHRI¿FLDOVGLGQ¶WGLVFORVHZKHWKHUSLORWVZHUHKXUWRUWKH     16 about 2 miles northeast of Brown Field Municipal Airport.
                                                                                                                                                  Details of the allegations were not available. A spokeswoman
DPRXQWRIGDPDJHWRWZR86$LU)RUFH¿JKWHUMHWVWKDWFRO-             BAE says a military contractor also was on board but didn’t           IRUWKHLQVSHFWRUJHQHUDO¶VRI¿FH%ULGJHW6HUFKDNGHFOLQHGWR
lided on the ground during the weekend at Nellis Air Force, Nev.      release that person’s name or the positions of its three employ-         comment.
                                                                      ees. The Cessna pilot’s name also has not been released.
   $VWDWHPHQWIURPWKHWK$LU%DVH:LQJSXEOLFDIIDLUVRI¿FH                                                                                  Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Aug. 26 that he can’t speak
said the pilots were medically evaluated after the 11:20 a.m.,           National Transportation Safety Board investigator Andrew              about any potential inspector general report or investigation. AP
$XJLQFLGHQWIROORZLQJWKHLUUHWXUQIURPDÀLJKWRSHUDWLRQ       Swick told reporters Monday that investigators planned to take
to the base outside Las Vegas.                                        the debris to Arizona to reconstruct the wreckage but that the
                                                                      probe could take a year to complete. AP

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