A total of 13 choppers were bought from Rice Aircraft Services, a run-of-the-mill aircraft maker in California, at a cost of P2.1 billion. ADVERTISEMENTThey were pieces of junk scavenged from a junkyard of the German military, shipped to the Rice Aircraft hangar, pieced together into helicopters, and then delivered to the PAF, according to whistleblower Dory Alvarez, former Rice Aircraft representative in the country. Parra, then chair of the Air Force technical working group that received the choppers, is now PAF vice commander. Since Gazmin and Noynoy are no longer around, there’s no reason for the Air Force to continue flying those junk choppers. ADVERTISEMENTMust there be loss of more soldiers’ lives before those junk choppers are grounded?

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer May 08, 2017 18:22 UTC