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Derf
2007-02-06, 11:31 AM
Brits Hit by Friendly Fire-Video (GRAPHIC LANGUAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Sad stuff, for all involved.


http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,11021-10043,00.html
hiss srq
2007-02-06, 11:50 AM
no words to describe noo words at all. I do notknow what I would do if I were in those pilots spots. I would have probably have rolled her into the canal to be honest.
mirrodie
2007-02-06, 01:14 PM
THese were A-10 pilots? Do we know when this occurred?

Sad to see, more disturbing t hear.
Matt Molnar
2007-02-06, 02:16 PM
It happened the second week of the war in 2003. The Pentagon cleared the pilots of any wrongdoing, but the Brits want to question them.

Reuters story (http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2007-02-06T174557Z_01_L06729814_RTRUKOC_0_UK-IRAQ-BRITAIN-VIDEO.xml&pageNumber=0&imageid=&cap=&sz=13&WTModLoc=NewsArt-C1-ArticlePage2)
emshighway
2007-02-06, 08:42 PM
They tried to clear the targets as friend or foe several times and it sounds like the controller (AWACs probably) designated them as foe.

My sympathies to the soldiers killed and injured and the pilots.
SCOTYDEMCO
2007-02-07, 10:12 AM
Very sad. I agree with EMS. The pilots kept stating that they had orange tops, and seemed to be questioning the orders that they were foe. FUBAR.
uplander
2007-02-07, 01:57 PM
Very sad listening to that. :( Reminds me of the Tarnak Farm incident where 4 Canadians were killed,and 8 injured almost 5 years ago now: http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asia ... an.canada/ (http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/central/04/18/afghanistan.canada/)

More in-depth at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarnak_Farm_incident

And they even wrote a book about it: http://www.amazon.com/Friendly-Fire-Can ... 0470836865 (http://www.amazon.com/Friendly-Fire-Canadian-Soldiers-Afghanistan/dp/0470836865)