内容摘要："It would appear that Egyptian authorities are doing their very best to kind of sweep this under the carpet," says Andy. "They want to protect their tourism industry."

"It would appear that Egyptian authorities are doing their very best to kind of sweep this under the carpet," says Andy. "They want to protect their tourism industry."

The chopper had been sent to assist at RAF Lakenheath, in Suffolk,Flight data indicated the aircraft climbed steeply and made a series of sharp turns while over the nearby town of Newmarket in November.

The National Police Air Service (NPAS), which operates the Airbus H135, would not comment as the incident was still under investigation. However, a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to police revealed the helicopter withdrew "due to a drone coming close to them".NPAS confirmed that the helicopter, understood to have the registration G-POLJ, had been sent to the area on 22 November following reports of drone sightings.The US Air Force said a number of unmanned aerial systems

in the vicinity of RAF Lakenheath, RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk, RAF Feltwell in Norfolk and RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire.NPAS has video footage of the incident but would not release it on national security grounds, following a series of FOI requests.

What is known as an Airprox notification was sent following the incident.

These are submitted when a pilot or air traffic personnel identify a near miss in which the safety of the aircraft involved may have been compromised.The files have been published in a new book, The Murderer Who Must Be Saved, by French investigative journalists Karl Laske and Vincent Nouzille, and Libyan activist Samir Shegwara.

Mr Shegwara - who took part in the uprising against Gaddafi in 2011 - told the reporters the documents were retrieved from the archives of Libya's former intelligence chief Abdullah Senussi, who was named as a Lockerbie suspect in 2015.The journalists spent four years checking their contents with contacts and against information already in the public domain.

Mr Nouzelle said: "Samir Shegwara's not interested in money or in revenge."He just wants these documents to go public for truth and for history and for justice.