Libya protests: 500 Britons trapped as plane breaks down

Libya protests: 500 Britons trapped as plane breaks down "Hundreds of terrified Britons were still trapped in Libya last night as the plane meant to rescue them sat on the tarmac at Gatwick with a ‘technical fault’.

The first specially-chartered flight to Tripoli designed to rescue 500 stranded men and women had been announced yesterday by Foreign Secretary William Hague.

But as Colonel Gaddafi’s regime teetered on the brink of bloody civil war, and other nations evacuated their citizens from danger, Britain’s response to the crisis descended into chaos."

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