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...next day when the Serbs began encircling Gorazde, Rose and Akashi called for "fairly robust air cover," according to a senior White House official. When a Serb tank fired on a hospital, injuring several people, Rose and Akashi upped their request to "close air support." But when NATO aircraft went in search of targets, bad weather forced the planes to fly low, which in turn resulted in the downing of the British...
...deal began in 1987, when Garrett, an engine company based in Phoenix, Arizona, beat out rivals from France, Britain and Canada for a contract to supply engines to Nanchang Aircraft, a Chinese government-owned manufacturer. Nanchang said it needed the engines for a light military jet trainer, the K-8, that was destined to be sold abroad. In November 1991, the U.S. Commerce Department, which had been moving aggressively to promote American trade by cutting through export barriers, quietly dropped national security controls originally imposed during the cold war, allowing the engines to be shipped to China without an export...
...civilian officials, including 15 Americans and five Kurds; all of them perished. They had been on their way to meet with Kurdish leaders in the northern Iraq town of Salahuddin, part of the safe haven created for the Kurds after the Gulf War. The crews of all five aircraft in the tragedy were slated to attend a rehearsal one day earlier in which they had reviewed flight routes, radio frequencies and the timing of Thursday's mission. "There were human errors, probably, and there might be process or system errors as well," said Defense Secretary William Perry. Postponing a long...
...Gulf War resulted from accidental assault by their own side. The Pentagon established a Fratricide Task Force to develop ways to avoid such accidents. Even during the war, however, when hundreds of planes representing more than two dozen allied nations filled the skies, none of those deaths involved aircraft firing upon one another...
...carriers while the centralized system of maintenance, safety inspections and quality control vanished into thin air. The effect on safety has been chilling. In Armenia last December, 34 people died when a cargo plane illegally carrying passengers crashed and exploded like a Molotov cocktail. Examiners later determined that the aircraft had been loaded with two poorly secured automobiles stuffed with cans of gasoline, and that many of the passengers were also clutching jugs of gasoline as carry-on luggage. In Irkutsk this January, the pilot of a Tupolev-154 ignored a warning from a flight engineer that...