1994 Black Hawk shootdown incident
The 1994 Black Hawk shootdown incident, sometimes referred to as the Black Hawk Incident, was a friendly fire incident over northern Iraq that occurred on 14 April 1994. The pilots of two U.S. Air Force F-15 fighter aircraft misidentified two United States Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters as Iraqi Mil Mi-24 \”Hind\” helicopters. The F- 15 pilots fired on and...