Mice Ground F-16s

21st December 2007

A source it identified as a Polish Air Force officer has told the daily Dziennik that 10 newly purchased Lockheed F-16 fighter jets at a base in Krzesiny near Poznań have been grounded by mice that chewed through their cables.

A source it identified as a Polish Air Force officer has told the daily Dziennik that 10 newly purchased Lockheed F-16 fighter jets at a base in Krzesiny near Poznań have been grounded by mice that chewed through their cables. The base spokesman admitted that the planes are not airworthy, but declined to blame the problem on rodents. According to Dziennik’s source, the problem with mice recurs every autumn when they seek shelter from the cold in the b ...