1994BlackHawkShootdownWreckage.jpg


Summary

Description U.S. Military personnel inspect the wreckage of a Black Hawk helicopter in the Northern Iraq No Fly Zone during Operation Provide Comfort, April 15 or 16, 1994. The helicopter was one of two United States Army Black Hawks shot down by U.S. Air Force F-15 fighters on April 14 , 1994 in a friendly fire incident. This was the trailing helicopter and was shot down by USAF Captain Eric Wickson.
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  • Piper, Joan L. (2001) Chain of Events: The Government Cover-up of the Black Hawk Incident and the Friendly-fire Death of Lt. Laura Piper , Brassey's ISBN 1574883445 p. 148.
Author United States Air Force
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( Reusing this file )
Photo caption in book states that image is a "U.S. Air Force Photograph" which makes it public domain.

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This image or file is a work of a U.S. Air Force Airman or employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government , the image or file is in the public domain in the United States.

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I had the vision exactly one year before it happened. Tried sharing. They thought I was crazy!

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