A Chain of Events
The Government Cover-Up of the Black Hawk Incident and the Friendly-Fire Death of Lt. Laura Piper
by Joan L. Piper

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• Author: Joan L. Piper
• ISBN: 9781574883442 (1574883445)
• Publisher: Potomac Books
• Format: paperback, 320 pages
• Language: english
• Release date: June 1, 2001

About The Book

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.

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