A. According to Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the troops close to PTK, the last remaining LTTE- held town at that time, passed on information about the aircraft even before the radars detected them.
B. The tiger craft flew over Mannar and Wilpattu en route to Colombo. It was their normal route. The troops would have captured the LTTE planes within days, and the LTTE had acted before they lost the craft on the ground."
C. The Defence Ministry said each aircraft was loaded with explosives weighing 215 kg and added that the pilots failed to drop any bomb.
D. He said: "The LTTE may have used a straight road in their last stronghold for taking off as the outfit had lost all the airstrips to the troops during the past few months.
E. There was no explanation as to how the two light-wing aircraft managed to make their way from PTK to the heart of the national capital and come within meters of their purported targets.
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