When two Air Force F-15 fighters flying over northern Iraq misidentified two Army helicopters as enemy craft and shot them down in 1994, killing 26 people, only a captain serving as a weapons control officer in an Awacs control plane faced charges.
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McDonnell Douglas Corp .'s $ 80 billion F / A-18 E / F " Super Hornet " fighter plane faces new scrutiny from congressional investigators about potential problems with its engines and landing and munitions systems, Defense Week reported.
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With Finnish army reinforcements, there were 268, 000 Finnish army troops with 2, 350 guns, 110 tanks / assault guns and 250 planes facing the two Red Army Fronts; 40 % of the men and guns, and all the tanks were on the Isthmus.
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A U . S . Embassy official, speaking on condition on anonymity, said Friday the U . S . spray planes faced increasing gunfire as the fumigation of drug crops _ which are " taxed " and protected by rebels and their paramilitary foes _ gains pace in Colombia.
