Abducted girls:UK's Spy Plane Joins Rescue Mission

As efforts to rescue hundreds of girls kidnapped by Boko Haram reaches top gear,a United Kingdom(UK) spy plane has joined the foreign team in Nigeria in order to support the rescue mission.
According to the UK Ministry of Defense,the Sentinel R1 plane has a crew of five and took off from RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire,on Sunday.

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The ministry said the “state-of-the-art surveillance jet” would operate from Accra, Ghana, and would join United States (US) aircraft in attempting to locate the girls.

The Ministry also said the aircraft was “capable of flying for significant periods of time at high altitude” and was fitted with a “dual mode radar,” which could “locate moving targets and offer radar imagery.”