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In 1993, two helicopters were fired at in different circumstances, one of them with heavy machine guns on 8 January at Kinawley after a mortar attack on a British Army outpost, [14] and the other with automatic rifles on 12 December near Fivemiletown, County Tyrone, after an ambush where two RUC officers from Clogher barracks were killed. [15]
Camera footage from a U.S. A-10, as it begins an attack on a British vehicle squadron, March 2003. This is a list of friendly fire incidents by the U.S. Military on allied British personnel and civilians. Korean War 23 September 1950: During the "Battle of Hill 282", three United States Air Force P-51 Mustang aircraft attacked a position held by the British Army's 1st Battalion, Argyll and ...
On 13 February 1991 Lynx helicopter ZE380 was hauling an underslung load from Bessbrook to the joint British Army-RUC base at Crossmaglen. To accommodate the underslung load the pilots had to fly relatively low and were restricted to a maximum speed of 60 knots; internal cargo stowage which needed to be unloaded on the ground left helicopters vulnerable to attack from IRA mortars.
The three crewmembers of a Republic of Korea Army Boeing Vertol CH-47D Chinook helicopter, of the 301st Aviation Regiment, Icheon, [29] were killed when the aircraft crashed in Seoul, South Korea while installing a flame-shaped sculpture atop the Han River Olympic Bridge, built to commemorate the 1988 Olympic Games. Having just lowered the ...
It tried to land in bad visibility at Rennes but crashed into a row of trees, five crew and 21 soldiers and members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service were killed. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] On 13 October KL595 a Consolidated Liberator C.6 of 206 Squadron RAF failed to gain speed on takeoff from Melsbroek, Belgium and sank back into ground, 31 killed.
The helicopter's loss caused the British to suspect that Argentine forces were still operating in the area, so patrols were mounted by Gurkha soldiers. [9] When the Gurkhas came across the personnel manning the Pleasant Peak station there was potential for another friendly fire incident to occur. [ 16 ]
In mid August Several four-man SAS patrols accompanied 35 members of Pathfinder Platoon, 16 Air Assault Brigade, into rebel held areas in northern Macedonia, on 21 August, the paratroopers guided in two British army Lynx helicopters into the village of Šipkovica, who were carrying 3 British NATO leaders that met with rebel leaders to the ...
Operation Jocal, on 24 June 2003, six Royal Military Police soldiers from 156 Provost Company of the 16 Air Assault Brigade were assaulted and killed by an Iraqi mob numbering several hundred at a police station in Majar al-Kabir. The town was known for banditry and lawlessness, the people there insisted that they had liberated themselves from ...