Whist friendly fire has happened since the dawn of time and as much as we reply on technology unfortunately it will never be completely eliminated,
once politicians and civil servants from any country get involved it just shows they are just natural born lairs. I bet a pound to a pinch of pig sh#t that some civilian looking at saving face and money decided that this tape was classified, after all the military just does as it is told.
"Can we see the cockpit tape of the friendly fire incident in which a troop was killed. It is required for the coroner to make a full report."
"No tape exists of that incident"
"So you are telling me that the tape now in the public domain does not exist?"
Having now seen the tape and read the transcription I truly cannot see why it was for 4 years denied and whilst it appears to be an honest mistake (there was not gung ho flying or talk from the pilots), they spent time getting conformation of targets and I have no wish to see a highly trained pilot be grounded or worse, it does make one wonder the motive behind the lies and deceit. I would bet that the person who leaked is more likely to be spit roasted than anyone else involved from start to finish.
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it has been leaked but the proper channels is what im speaking about.
) and wanted to bomb some Ragheads or Camel Jockies (I use these words to emphasis the gung ho attitude of that particular incident only, before you start I am married to a foreign national 
) To punish the guys in this particular incident would serve no purpose except to add more stress on the next bunch of guys on the front line maybe causing the enemy to be able to strike back. It was an accident, blue on blue is a fact of war life. It is just a question of how long before it happens again. In the past couple of years we have had British troop blue on blue and American soldiers shooting at each other. That does not seem to make the news much and these guys are a matter of meters away from each other. A couple of fighter pilots at X thousand feet and we expect them to have bionic eyes..............Just one persons opinion.