Tag: RAF Mount Pleasant

• Thursday, November 19th 2015 - 22:30 UTC

  Falklands' cruise rescue operation live-tested and successfully completed

  

  Passengers and crew forced to abandon a cruise ship due to a fire in the engine room causing loss of power, were all safe and without injury in Stanley yesterday morning. This followed a complex rescue and care mission comprising British Forces from Mount Pleasant, Government emergency services, the ship’s agents Sulivan Shipping and with support from local farmers.

• Tuesday, May 19th 2015 - 07:05 UTC

  Falklands celebrates 30th Anniversary of Mount Pleasant Airport opening

  

  ”The Falkland Islands airport emerges from rock and peat-bog” said The Times in its 11 May edition, the day before the official opening of Mount Pleasant Airport in 1985, thirty years ago last week.

• Monday, April 6th 2015 - 08:33 UTC

  Falklands' RAF MPA complex allegedly technically exposed by UK defense blunder

  

  A new report says a UK Ministry of Defense (MoD) blunder has put the Falkland Islands at risk of attack from Argentina, which claims sovereignty over the archipelago and in 1982 invaded the Islands militarily until they were defeated and ousted 74 days later.

• Friday, October 24th 2014 - 04:43 UTC

  Falklands' veterans involved in 'clean up' after the war receive campaign medals

  

  Falkland Islands veterans who arrived to 'clean up' after the war ended have finally been given their campaign medals after 32 years. David Cameron handed the servicemen the South Atlantic Medal in Downing Street on Wednesday after a long-awaited review found they should have been recognized for their service in 1982, according to a report from Dan Bloom for the MailOnline.