The failed Air Tiger mission

The two-light wing LTTE aircraft which attacked Colombo last night were on a suicide mission similar to the September 11, 2001 (9/11) attack in the US. The military meanwhile said that one pilot, whose body was found intact in Katunayake, had a large quantity of explosives and bombs inside the aircraft. TIGER PLANES SHOT DOWN Two aircraft belonging to the nascent LTTE air wing were shot down by the security forces last evening when they raided the Colombo skies in their ninth mission targeting the defence sectors and the economic nerve centres in the city. The wreckage of one destroyed aircraft and the body of its pilot were found near the Katunayake Air Force base while the other crashed onto the Inland Revenue Department building. The pilot wore a cyanide capsule round his neck and hand grenades strapped to his chest. _DailyMirror