Two Libyan air force pilots who defected to Malta with their Mirage jet fighter planes last February are to return to Tripoli tomorrow.
The news of the pilots' return to Libya after seven months in Malta, comes a day after Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi announced that he met the pilots on several occasions and discussed the situation in Libya with them.
The two pilots had stunned the country after flying their jets to Malta and immediately requested asylum, after defecting from Col. Gaddafi's air force, refusing to bomb villages which during the uprising.
According to Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi, the Maltese government did all it could to make the pilots' stay in Malta as comfortable as possible and was working to have them reunited with their families.
Meanwhile, there were various attempts by the Gaddafi regime to take back the fighter jets. These demands were refused by the Maltese government at the time.
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