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Airbus grounded at last

It was one of my first big stories for the Mail & Guardian: the government was planning to buy a fleet of eight highly sophisticated A400M military transport planes from Airbus, for what at the time -- 2004 -- seemed a staggering R8-billion. Full Article at Mail & Guardian Online

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