Frantic attempts were made to call off American aircraft as they targeted a convoy of British tanks in Iraq, an inquest was told yesterday. Smoke identifying the tanks as friendly forces was sent up & tank commanders radioed air controllers, but they were told that the aircraft were being flown by “rogue” pilots who could not be contacted. Instead, they swooped over the convoy once more, setting tanks on fire & killing Lance Corporal of Horse Matty Hull, 25, from Windsor, Berkshire. Corporal Ashley Bell told Lance Corporal Hull’s inquest, in Oxford, of his shock when the aircraft continued to bomb the tanks as they conducted a reconnaissance mission near Basra in southern Iraq, in March 2003. “We started to realise this was a friendly-on-friendly & I got on to the radio,” said Corporal Bell. “I asked for a ‘Stop stop stop, check fire’, at which everyone in our forces is supposed to stop firing.” But he said that he got no response & the aircraft attacked again...
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