UK lawmakers lambast new St. Helena airport in South Atlantic

Credit: St Helena Airport
An influential UK parliamentary committee has described as “a fiasco” the building of a £285 million ($355 million) airport on the remote UK South Atlantic possession of St. Helena. The airport has been discovered to be unusable to commercial flights by wind shear on the approach . The tiny island...

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