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Title

A chain of events : the government cover-up of the Black Hawk incident and the friendly fire death of Lt. Laura Piper / Joan L. Piper.

Author

Piper, Joan L.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Brassey's, ©2000.

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Details

Description

ix, 282 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

• "On April 14, 1994, on a clear morning over the northern Iraq No Fly Zone, two U.S. Air Force F-15 jets encountered two U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopters on a routine mission. Within ten minutes, the F-15s misidentified the helicopters and shot them down with fire-and-forget missiles. For three years, aircraft had patrolled these skies with a near-perfect safety record. Although the Black Hawk downing was one of the worst air-to-air friendly fire incidents involving U.S. aircraft in military history, and despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the Air Force would officially conclude the pilots had made a reasonable mistake."
• "One victim was ebullient, twenty-five-year-old intelligence officer Laura Piper, in love with life and with being an Air Force lieutenant. A Chain of Events is the story of Laura's final flight, the Air Force's mishandling of the subsequent investigation, and the Piper family's battle with government bureaucracies for accountability. It is about duty, patriotism, a mother's devotion to a daughter's memory, and a family's disappointment in a beloved institution."--Jacket.

Subject

• 1994
• Black Hawk Friendly Fire Incident, Iraq, 1994
• Friendly fire (Military science) > Iraq
• Aerial reconnaissance, American > Iraq
• Black Hawk (Military transport helicopter) > Accidents > Investigation > United States
• Aerial reconnaissance, American
• Friendly fire (Military science)
• Militärhubschrauber
• Unfall
• Friendly fire
• Golfoorlog (1991)
• Incidenten
• Slachtoffers
• Geschichte 1994
• Iraq
• United States
• Irak
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-276) and index.

Contents

1. San Antonio, Texas April 10, 1994 -- 2. Incirlik Air Force Base, Turkey April 13, 1994 -- 3. Incirlik Air Force Base, Turkey April 14, 1994 -- 4. Incirlik Air Force Base, Turkey April 14, 1994 -- 5. MCC Forward, Zakhu, Iraq April 14, 1994 -- 6. No Fly Zone, Northern Iraq April 14, 1994 -- 7. No Fly Zone, Northern Iraq April 14, 1994 -- 8. Incirlik Air Force Base, Turkey April 14, 1994 -- 9. Washington, D.C. April 14, 1994 -- 10. San Antonio, Texas April 14, 1994 -- 11. Incirlik Air Force Base, Turkey April 14, 1994 -- 12. Black Hawk Crash Site, Iraq April 15, 1994 -- 13. San Antonio, Texas April 15, 1994 -- 14. San Antonio, Texas April 18, 1994 -- 15. San Antonio, Texas April 24, 1994 -- 16. Over the North Atlantic Ocean June 11, 1994 -- 17. San Antonio, Texas July 1, 1994 -- 18. San Antonio, Texas August 1, 1994 -- 19. Zakhu, Northern Iraq August 13, 1994 -- 20. San Antonio, Texas August 26, 1994 -- 21. Washington, D.C. September 8, 1994 -- 22. San Antonio, Texas September 8, 1994 -- 23. San Antonio, Texas October 1, 1994 -- 24. Oklahoma City October 18, 1994 -- 25. San Antonio, Texas October 22, 1994 -- 26. Sembach Air Force Base, Germany November 7, 1994 -- 27. San Antonio, Texas December 1, 1994 -- 28. San Antonio, Texas January 1, 1995 -- 29. San Antonio, Texas April 1, 1995 -- 30. San Antonio, Texas May 1995 -- 31. Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma City June 3, 1995 -- 32. San Antonio, Texas June 20, 1995 -- 33. San Antonio, Texas July 1995 -- 34. San Antonio, Texas August 1, 1995 -- 35. The Pentagon August 10, 1995 -- 36. San Antonio, Texas September 1995 -- 37. Zakhu, Northern Iraq August 1996 -- 38. San Antonio, Texas September 1996 -- 39. Washington, D.C. October 30, 1996 -- 40. The Pentagon January 1, 1997 -- 41. San Antonio, Texas August 23, 1998 -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index

ISBN

• 1574882317
• 9781574882315

LCCN

99086467

OCLC

• ocm43403643
• 43403643
• SCSB-14404147

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library