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WARSAW, Poland, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Poland's Defense Ministry has reportedly scrapped a major tender for pilot-training aircraft.
The tender announced in September 2010 was for 16 planes, together with flight simulators and fully equipped classrooms for trainee pilots.
The specified Lead-In Fighter Trainer aircraft were to be only for training purposes, and five companies came forward with proposals, including Korea Aerospace Industries and BAE Systems-UK.
Polish Radio News said Tomasz Siemoniak, Poland's minister of defense, gave no reason for the tender cancellation but said a new one would be drawn up. Quoting unidentified sources, the report said new aircraft are no longer considered essential for training and that flight simulators would be used instead.
The report said it has been a trying year for the Polish Air Force, which has been under scrutiny in the wake of the Smolensk Air Disaster of April 2010, which killed 96 people.
Among the victims were Polish president Lech Kaczynski, the chief of the Polish General Staff and other senior Polish military officers.
Poland's official report placed considerable blame on the Air Force, indicating the pilots of the Smolensk plane were ill-prepared for the flight.
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