$86M US counter-narcotics plane still sitting in storage
An $86 million Drug Enforcement Administration plane purchased seven years ago to fly surveillance and counter-narcotics missions in Afghanistan remains grounded in the U.S. and likely will never fly in Asia, according to a scathing audit released Wednesday by the Justice Department's inspector general. The review, which was spurred by a July 2014 whistleblower's report, found that the Global Discovery program to modify the ATR 42-500 aircraft to provide the DEA...
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