American pilot responsible for death of Canadian soldier
Sun, 2007-07-15 06:46
#1
American pilot responsible for death of Canadian soldier
Sun, 2007-07-15 06:46
#2
[url=http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=1c8d2bc2-8a57-4fac...
quote:
and more than 30 injured found an American fighter pilot "solely responsible" for the "preventable" error.The A-10A Friendly Fire Board of Inquiry report, released Friday, concluded that an unnamed US Air Force pilot "lost his situational awareness" while flying in support of NATO coalition ground forces in the Panjawi district of southern Afghanistan. Pte. Mark Anthony Graham was killed on Sept. 4, 2006 when the A-10 Thunderbolt pilot mistook a garbage fire lit by Canadian troops for an enemy bomb blast and strafed the terrain in response.
Is it policy for pilots to "strafe the terrain" where they believe a bomb blast may have occured?
Sun, 2007-07-15 10:40
#3
I was just about to pose the same question. If a bomb has already went off then why would you fire on the ground??? A little trigger happy I would say "I needs to mosey back with at least something dying tonight" Esp an enemy bomb because you would have to assume if the enemy let it off it was targeting something friendly maybe even a comrade. Remember we need to be in afghanistan for the next 20 years according to steven "we need to make sacrifices" harper. Oh really I thought we got rid of that part of mayian society. Guess not!
Sun, 2007-07-15 12:07
#4
The article quoted mis-states or poorly states what happened. The CBC does a better job. It was not a enemy bomb blast but bomb blast on a enemy position that was the target.
quote:
Air strikes had been called into the fight zone the day before, after four Canadian soldiers — Sgt. Shane Stachnik, Warrant Officer Frank Robert Mellish, Pte. William Cushley and Warrant Officer Richard Francis Nolan — had been killed in the fighting.U.S. aircraft were in the area keeping up the pressure, and the pilot of the A10-A was given the job of strafing a target that moments earlier had been hit by a guided bomb dropped by another American aircraft.
He was supposed to use the fire and smoke generated by the bomb to identify where he was to shoot.
[url=http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/07/14/graham-friendlyfire-report.htm...