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police on the trail of this illicit cargo container a container ship flying the flag of the Republic of the Marshall Islands Several ports of call had been planned on its route including a February 6 stopover in Costa Rica where it was notably scheduled to pick up a container of banana puree of which the country is a major world producer A network of drug traffickers slipped cocaine into the container concealed in a shipment purchased by Andros its last ports of call were in Italy: Livorno and Genoa in simultaneous stealth operations conducted in both ports the Italian carabinieri entered the suspect container They discovered 3.3 metric tons of cocaine The illicit cargo was immediately seized and replaced with dummy "bricks," filled with flour and rigged with GPS trackers The Marseille port traffickers took these decoys in the back of a Renault Master van to an empty villa in the nearby village of Saint-Mitre-les-Remparts You have 83.2% of this article left to read Lecture du Monde en 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place shortly before the initial example was due to be delivered to the French army The aircraft was destroyed when it came down near the town of Saint-Mitre-Les-Remparts on 6 December during an “industrial reception flight” from Istres air base in the south of the country Source: Guillaume Menard/Wikimedia Commons Speaking on a full-year earnings call on 27 February Safran chief executive Philippe Petitcolin said: “we know what happened in terms of the failure of the system” during the flight test “We are now doing our job in order to clean all this system and make it completely in line with the requirements of the customer,” he adds Petitcolin provides no further detail on the causes of the crash or the modifications made to the platform Paris ordered 14 examples for its army in 2016 long-endurance platform that can operate for up to 20h at an altitude of 20,000ft Its composite airframe is manufactured by Ecarys in Germany The California company Stratolaunch is pioneering the development of a reusable flight vehicle capable of reaching speeds beyond Mach 5 Ten of the Boeing refuellers have been listed for sale on a US government auction website India has conducted a maiden flight for a so-called “stratospheric airship platform” with the aim of collecting data to inform future sorties Unmanned air vehicle (UAV) producer Tekever is to invest over £400 million ($532 million) to boost its activities in the UK and add more than 1,000 employees to its workforce When Portugal signed for five Embraer C/KC-390 tactical transports in July 2019 it was taking something of a gamble by becoming the first export buyer for the Brazilian-built type – but its air force’s 506 Squadron is now flying high with the Brazilian-built airlifter The UK Royal Air Force (RAF) has introduced to service its “first of a new family of autonomous collaborative platforms” which it claims will revolutionise operations in contested environments FlightGlobal is the global aviation community’s 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