A PLANE damaged by Palestine Action activists during a break-in at an RAF base is back in action.
An Airbus A330 Voyager with the registration number ZZ338 was among the planes damaged by activists during the raid at RAF Brize Norton on June 20.
But flight tracker data, first revealed by Declassified UK and confirmed by The National, shows that the plane has been on at least three journeys since yesterday.
The plane, which is used to refuel other jets in the air, flew from Brize Norton to Glasgow Prestwick and back on Tuesday.
On Wednesday the plane embarked on a four-and-a-half-hour trip which saw it circle for a time over the North Sea off the East Anglia coast, before travelling north over the North Pennines and performing loops over the Sea of the Hebrides and returning to its Oxfordshire base.
It had previously been reported that there were fears that Palestine Action had “damaged beyond repair” one of the engines of the planes.
The National understands that the damage may have been repairable by fixing parts of the affected engines, or replacing the engine altogether, and that this could be achieved by RAF engineers relatively quickly.
A total of six people have so far been arrested in connection with the incident. Of them, five were arrested on suspicion of committing terror offences and another was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.
Palestine Action are set to be banned under terrorism laws later on Wednesday.
The UK Government is seeking to proscribe the organisation, which would make it a serious criminal offence to be a member of or support the group.
The Ministry of Defence was approached for comment.
