European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 01, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday december 1, 1994 world the stars and stripes Page 9 Short air Force " " plagued by crashes i Moscow tap scarce govern ment funding. Has left the russian air Force Short of fuel and flying experience resulting in a growing number of crashes a russian commander says. Lack of a government policy aimed at strengthening the air Force leads to a significant fall in combat readiness with planes crash ing and pilots dying nearly every month col. Gen. Boris Gromov rus Sia s Deputy defense minister told the daily Nezovi Siahaya Gazita. This year there Grachev have been at least 20 air Force accidents killing 80 people Gromov said. The worst crash occurred in August when an an-12 military trans port slammed into the ground while try ing to land near the Eastern siberian City of Bada. All 47 people aboard were killed./. -. Gromov blamed the increasing number of crashes on pilots skills rapidly falling because of the fuel shortage. This year the air Force got Only half of fuel it needed he said t " in the u a. Air Force and Navy Mili tary pilots Fly an average 180 hours a year while our officers Fly Only 25 hours Gromov said. _ last month defense minister Pavel Grachev said the military had received Only half the Money budgeted for 1994 37.7 trillion rubles or about $12 billion at current Exchange rates. The situation is worsened by the air Force s rapidly aging planes while the re search and development of new technologies have been Frozen Gromov said the most experienced pilots disgusted with paltry salaries and housing Short Ages have been retiring. An air Force lieutenant now gets 1.5 times less than a train engine Driver Gromov said. Over 10,000 air Force offi cers Don t have  the air Force lacks even the most Nec Essary equipment to Rescue the Crews of downed aircraft Gromov said. He cited one Case in 1993,when eight people lied in a military helicopter crash in the. Far East. The4 Rescue team arrived too late to help. A   it took the team More than eight hours to find a. Helicopter and several More hours to get inside it he said. " Gromov who commanded the soviet army group during the War in Afghani Stan has been rumoured to be  out. Nezah Ishimaya gazeta and the inter fax news Agency have said he might lose his Job along with two other Grachev deputies in a planned 30 percent Cut of the ministry s Central office the daily Moskovsky Koms molets said Grachev has Long wanted to get rid of Gromov who is popular among troops and is often named As a possible Grachev successor. Egypt demands trial in pin am att go _ Cairo Egypt a Eger it seeking to end an impasse e Between Libya and the West called wednesday for the immedi ate trial of two libyans suspected in the 1988 bombing a pan am Jet. Leaving the Issue hanging is not in the interest of anyone foreign minister Amr Moussa said. It is not in the inter est of Justice or in the interest of he vie Tims families.". \ Egypt has Wen attempting to mediate an end to the standoff by urging the West _ . Arab league s Resolution backing Libya s Call for a trial in a Neutral country.  ,.--� ,. Libyan Leader Moa mar Qadhafi wants the suspects tried at the International court of Justice in the Hague Netherlands before scottish judges the United states Ami Britain have rejected the proposal saying the men should be handed Over for trial in either the United states or Scotland. Pan am flight 103 was blown up dec. 21, 1988, Over Lockerbie Scotland. All 259 people on the flight were killed Al Fig with 11 on the ground. Air 1991  and scottish Legal authorities issued arrest warrants for two libyans identified As intelligence agents Abdel Basset Ali Jil my Grahn and i Meji Khz Jifa Fahimah. Kashmir heritage wholesalers. 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