Germany grounds half of its Tornado jets due to loose screws

‘A technical defect has forced Germany to ground nearly half of its fleet of Tornado aircraft, including six reconnaissance jets used in the US-led coalition purportedly targeting Daesh militants in Syria and Iraq.
In total, 39 of the country’s 85 Tornado aircraft have been banned from flying due to “loose screws on a monitor in the cockpit,” German news agency DPA quoted an unnamed spokesman for the Federal Defense Forces of Germany (Bundeswehr) as saying on Friday.
He went on to say that although the defect, which was found on Wednesday and made the ministry ground the affected jets on Thursday, was not complicated to fix, it was “not something one can fix on one’s own.”’
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