SRI LANKA NIGHT FLIGHTS TO RESUME AFTER TIGER RADAR UPGRADE
June 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NOYAHR, in Colombo
AIRLINE operators this week reviewed security at Sri Lanka's Katunayake International Airport (KIA) days ahead of resuming night flights - suspended for two months since air attacks by the Tamil Tigers.
Its air defence has been made fully operational while Indian experts upgraded the radar system recently after the separatist Tigers in March dropped bombs from Czech-built ZLIN Z 143 aircraft on the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) base, adjoining the airport.
This led to overall airport security being placed under the SLAF, and ground ...
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