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...investigation of the incident as well as other accidents involving military aircraft. Senior Army pilots flying in Iraq on the day of the shoot-down discovered the coding glitch after they were called as expert witnesses at the court-martial of Air Force Captain Jim Wang. A top officer aboard the AWACS reconnaissance plane coordinating U.S. aircraft in the region, Wang was cleared last week of all charges in connection with the shoot-down. As the Army pilots watched the proceedings unfold, they were stunned to see entered into evidence declassified Air Force documents that showed the Black Hawks were...
...only court-martial to follow from the 1994 "friendly fire" downing of two U.S. helicopters patrolling the "no fly" zone over northern Iraq ended in the acquittal of the sole person charged: Air Force Captain Jim Wang, the senior director aboard the awacs plane monitoring the region. Wang claimed that his radarscope did not identify the choppers as friendly and that he was being pursued as a scapegoat; his acquittal means that no one involved in the attack--including the two F-15 pilots who fired on the helicopters--will be held criminally accountable for the snafu's 26 deaths...
Atlantis Commander Hoot Gibson gave a Houston Rockets T-shirt to Cosmonaut Anatoly Solavyev, as theRussian and American crews wrapped up the final day of their joint mission aboard the Mir space stationin a celebratory mood. Pulling on the shirt, Solavyev, who became a Rockets fan while training for the mission at the Johnson Space Center, took advantage of gravity-free conditions to vault over his fellow spacemen. Astronaut Norman Thagard, who celebrated his 52nd birthday aboard the MIR space station feeling like "a lab rat" as fellow astronauts collected blood and other biological samples, said he wished he could...
Both ships, the shuttle Atlantis and the space station Mir, had crews from both countries. Atlantis was ferrying a fresh pair of cosmonauts to Mir for the next two months; the Mir crew--two Russians and American Norman Thagard--looked forward to returning to Earth next week aboard the shuttle...
...people were killed and about 20 injured when an Air Force training jet, apparently experiencing mechanical problems, crashed into an apartment complex in Wichita Falls, Texas, minutes after taking off from nearby Sheppard Air Force Base. The two pilots aboard ejected safely...