EU border agency Frontex has also denied being connected to the unarmed aircraft.Conspicuous by their absence are official colours or livery. The Fairchild SA227-AT Expediter belonged to CAE Aviation , a defence contractor which trains more than 120,000 military and civil crewmembers each year. Wattiya’s proximity to Sabratha, then site of the Islamic State’s western Libya base, heightened speculation that the US is poised to launch strikes on the terror group. In May 2015, Wikileaks released two classified EU documents , outlining a planned military intervention by the combined military defence chiefs of the EU, laying out a military operation against cross-Mediterranean refugee transport networks and infrastructure. It detailed plans to conduct military operations to destroy boats used for transporting migrants and refugees in Libyan territory, preventing them from reaching Europe.

Source: Libya Today October 24, 2016 12:31 UTC