The United States will not be paying Australia compensation for a U.S.-made warplane that had burst into flames soon after Australia had acquired it, a Senate Estimates committee was told Friday at a parliamentary hearing in Canberra.
The $85 million (A$125 million) EA-18G Growler fighter jet of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) had attempted a take-off during a training exercise at a U.S. military base in Nevada in January 2018. But it instead caught fire following an engine malfunction.
