A Chain of Events: the Government Cover-Up of the Black Hawk Incident and the Friendly-Fire Death of Lt. Laura Piper
- List Price: $23.95
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Brassey's Inc
- Publish date: 07/01/2000
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On April 14, 1994, on a sky 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 five incidents involving U.S. aircraft in military history, the Air Force would officially conclude the pilots had made a reasonable mistake.
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One victim was ebullient twenty-five-old intelligence officer Laura Piper, in love with life and with being an Air Force lieutenant. Movingly written by her mother. A Chain of Events is the story of Laura's final flight and the Air Force's mishandling of the subsequent investigation. It is a story of duty, patriotism, a mother's devotion to a daughter's memory, and her family's disappointment in a beloved institution.
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