An edition of A chain of events (2000)

A Chain Of Events

The Government Cover-Up of the Black Hawk Incident and the Friendly-Fire Death of Lt. Laura Piper

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An edition of A chain of events (2000)

A Chain Of Events

The Government Cover-Up of the Black Hawk Incident and the Friendly-Fire Death of Lt. Laura Piper

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Potomac Books Inc.
Language
English
Pages
320

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First Sentence

"I've heard it said, April is the cruelest month, something I could never understand because April has always been my favorite month of the year."

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
320
Dimensions
8.7 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
Weight
1 pounds

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL8743048M
ISBN 10
1574883445
ISBN 13
9781574883442
OCLC/WorldCat
53048825
Library Thing
2669176
Goodreads
373099

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