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Originally Posted by Jimmy
I dont have specifics on many frat issues. The one that's near and dear to my heart is the Blackhawk shootdown. I know people who were on that E-3. The Army got its own people killed that day, but the Air Force contributed without a doubt.
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This was not the first of these type of incidents that occurred after PGW#1. Two months earlier there was an unknown and AWACS called in two F-14 Tomcats. The Tomcats were given permission to fire on the target. The lead pilot decided to get a visual ID with his TCS system. The unknown was a DC-9 charter that took-off more than an hour after the flight plan had stated.
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Originally Posted by Jimmy
There is absolutely a pilot protection mafia, no doubt. That said, I know that there have been cases where pilots have been prosecuted or at the very least discharged.
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It is good to see the pilots have a 'force' behind them. To many times a pilot does his best and some armchair lawyer tries to make him seem careless or incompetent because of some accident that happened.
Adrian