U.S. pilots strike again...(I hate when this happens)

Post by **Hilary the Touched** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:50 pm

From http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/02/0 ... video.html

U.S. pilots wept, swore after firing on British, cockpit video reveals
Last Updated: Tuesday, February 6, 2007 | 9:03 AM ET
CBC News

An American fighter pilot wept and another said he was going to be sick after learning they had mistakenly fired on a British military convoy in Iraq, according to a cockpit videotape released by a London newspaper.

The Sun on Tuesday released what it says is the cockpit video of two U.S. pilots involved in the 2003 attack that killed British soldier Lance Cpl. Matty Hull.

A coroner investigating Hull's death had demanded the video be released and presented as evidence in the inquest but U.S. authorities refused.

The leak means that the material is now in the public domain, the coroner's office said Tuesday, suggesting it may be shown when the inquest resumes Feb. 16.

British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said Tuesday that London was working with Washington to get as much information on the incident as possible.

...In 2002, an American F-16 fighter jet mistakenly dropped a 225-kilogram bomb on Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, killing four and injuring eight.

The two pilots involved in the incident didn't face courts martial, but did face non-judicial hearings. One was reprimanded and retired from the military, while the second was reprimanded and fined.