UK govt wasted £285m on St Helena airport, says panel
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THE UK wasted £285 million (S$514 million) on an almost unusable airport in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, a panel of lawmakers said on Wednesday.
Test flights in April to the landing strip on St Helena, a British territory in the south Atlantic, revealed "dangerous wind conditions on the airport approach," preventing the operation of regular commercial flights to the outpost, parliament's cross-party Public Accounts Committee said in an e-mailed report.
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