How Gaddafi keeps his airmen in hand and avoid desertions?

(BRUSSELS 2) The Kadhafi clan does not fully trust its officers and especially its airmen. Everyone remembers the desertion of two Mirage F-1s, preferring at the start of the repression to land in Malta and seek asylum. To ensure the loyalty of his airmen, Gaddafi seems to have resorted to the good old authoritarian method (used in particular by Trotsky during the creation of the Red Army): taking military families hostage. The airmen are thus warned: if it takes their mind not to return and take to their heels, they risk not seeing their families alive again. And this type of threats, the Gaddafi regime is not stingy in carrying them out...