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Two jets lost on Pelion Four fighter pilots feared dead, search parties comb mountain Four air force fighter pilots were feared dead after two twin-seater jets crashed into a mountain in central Greece during a training flight yesterday.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

PM talks tough on corruption

Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis stressed yesterday that he would be unwavering...

Greece zapped on gaming law

A two-year-old blanket ban on all electronic games, imposed as a desperate measure to prevent illegal gambling, landed Greece in hot water with Brussels yesterday.

Minister in dock over dealer plea

NICOSIA (AFP) - Cypriot Health Minister Dina Akkelidou is to stand trial...

Greek youth don’t dig pot

More than half of young Greeks believe it is easy to get hold of drugs in or around schools...

Striking Culture Ministry...

Striking Culture Ministry employees on short-term contracts stage yet another protest outside the ministry...

Three schoolbus drivers arrested

Three schoolbus drivers were arrested in Maroussi, northern Athens, yesterday on suspicion of traffic violations...

IN BRIEF

Prosecutor visits ailing Koufodinas, bars over jail yard may be removed : A prosecutor yesterday visited the convicted November 17 terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas...

Total of 1,506 staff taking part in bank's voluntary redundancy plan : A total of 1,506 employees of the National Bank of Greece (NBG) have opted to take part...

Staff to get paid on October 22 : Security services staff who worked extra hours during the Olympics and Paralympics are to receive the special Olympic bonuses...

Entertainer death : Actor, singer and television entertainer Vlassis Bonatsos died yesterday...

Doping testimony : Weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis, who won a bronze medal in the Olympics but then lost it...

Acropolis lift : A total of 3,572 people used the new lift for wheelchair users on the Acropolis...

Bridge convictions : Two civil engineers yesterday received five-year prison sentences...

Illegal immigrants : Forty-two were yesterday safely evacuated...


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EDITORIAL

Lost bearings The Greek air force was plunged into mourning after two F-16 fighter jets went missing yesterday only a month after a Chinook army helicopter accident in which 17 people were killed. The two warplanes had taken off on a training mission from the military airport at Larissa in central Greece. Four young men, four valuable air force members, went to their deaths.

COMMENTARY

Streamlining the military The crash of the two F-16 fighter jets and the death of the four pilots was the latest tragedy in a long chain of accidents that have plagued Greece's armed forces in the past few months. A state of laxity, inadequate training, and equipment shortcomings - flight simulators in this case - are some of the reasons for the poor shape of the armed forces. It is no coincidence that the first parliamentary committee...

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