MoD admits faults over Australian airman's death

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Source: ABC

The British Ministry of Defence has admitted there was a litany of faults with a military transport plane that crashed in Iraq in 2005, killing 10 servicemen including an Australian navigator.

Royal Air Force Flight Lieutenant Paul Pardoel, 35, was flying on the Hercules when it was shot down by insurgents.

Last year a British coroner found there were serious systematic failures in measures to protect the 10 men on board.

Now it has been revealed that the C-130 had other faults.

Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/05/25/2579457.htm?section=justin

[Xipe Totec]

1. That's strange, I don't remember any stories about insurgents bringing down planes...

It was always a mechanical fault, or pilot error, or friendly fire, or cooties.

But I don't remember any stories about insurgents successfully bringing down a military plane.


Go figure.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. No, it was claimed as such at the time

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6886612/

And a couple of months later, that was accepted officially as the reason:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/raf-hercules-that-crashed-killing-10-was-hit-by-missile-527620.html