A Chain of Events: The Government Cover-Up of the Black Hawk Incident and the Friendly-Fire Death of Lt. Laura Piper - Couverture souple

Piper, Joan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1574883445 ISBN 13 : 9781574883442

Editeur : Potomac Books Inc, 2001

Synopsis

On April 14, 1994, on a clear morning over northern Iraq's 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's downing was one of the worst air-to-air friendly fire incidents involving U.S. aircraft in military history, the Air Force would officially conclude the pilots had made a reasonable mistake. 

One victim was ebullient twenty-five-old intelligence officer Laura Piper, in love with life and with being an Air Force lieutenant. Movingly written by her mother, A Chain of Events is the story of Laura’s final flight and the Air Force’s mishandling of the subsequent investigation. It is a story of duty, patriotism, a mother’s devotion to a daughter’s memory, and her family’s disappointment in a beloved institution.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

JOAN L. PIPER is the mother of 1st Lt. Laura Piper, USAF. Her son Dan is a former Air Force officer. A schoolteacher, she and her husband Col. Danny Piper, USAF (Ret.), live in San Antonio, Texas, with their son Sean.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Potomac Books Inc
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1574883445
• ISBN 13: 9781574883442
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Mare Nostrum Group B.V.; gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk; ; Doelen 72; Breda; 4831 GR; Pays-Bas