On March 28, 2003, shortly after the invasion of Iraq by the American and British forces, 25 year old Lance Corporal Matty Hull, from Berkshire, England was killed near Basra by (un)friendly fire from US fighter jets. One of involved A10 Thunderbolt tankbusters was piloted by Lt. Col. Gus Kohntopp (POPOV36). For years UK/US officials denied the existence of this cockpit video but here it is.
It was not revealed until 2007 that British military officials did take part in a US military inquiry into the friendly fire killing of Matty Hull, which concluded that the US pilots were not to blame and cleared them both. As a result, no disciplinary action was taken and both pilots were back on duty, attached to the 190th Air Fighter Squadron, based at Boise, Idaho.
For 4 years, the UK Ministry of Defence claimed that a cockpit recording of the attack did not exist. They participated in the enquiry in November 2003, but kept lying to the public until 2007 that there was no cockpit video of the friendly fire incident.
As is apparent from the cockpit video reveal, the pilots clearly saw the orange panels on the top of the British armoured vehicles intended to identify them as friendly forces, but ultimately decided that they were rocket launchers. When one pilot suggested a return to base, the other said: “I think killing these damn rocket launchers, it would be great.”
Major David Small, spokesman for US central command, said that part of the reason the video had remained classified for four years was that the US shared so much classified information with the UK, there was no need to declassify most of it.
Props to Best Gore member nesta1234 for the video:
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