article_snippet: The aircraft, a militarised version of the  Airbus A330-200 passenger jet, was diverted to an airbase in Turkey after the incident on February 9 last year, and the state-of-the-art fleet grounded for 11 days while the cause of the dive was investigated by the Military Aviation Authority.
article_snippet: The two pilots were quickly able to level the plane, and The Purser decided to land the air craft as soon as possible so diverted the flight to the US Air Force's Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey.
article_snippet: The plane had set off from Brize Norton in Oxfordshire (pictured) on the morning of February 9 last year .
article_snippet: the flight had been bound for Camp Bastion in Afghanistan (pictured), which was the UK's major base in Afghanistan until late last year .