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The British seem to be having the worst possible luck.
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From: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s814102.htm
A British Royal Air Force plane listed as missing after an operation in the Gulf early Sunday (local time) was hit by a United States Patriot missile, a US military official said.
"I can confirm that the British plane was hit by a Patriot," an official with the US Central Command said.
"The crew is missing."
The official who asked not to be named provided no further details.
A Ministry of Defence official in London earlier said the plane had gone missing after an operational mission and "might have been engaged by a US-operated Patriot missile battery near the Kuwaiti border."
He said it was not yet possible to say what sort of plane was involved or how many crew it contained as no families had been contacted.
He also declined to say what mission the aircraft had been carrying out when it went missing.
On Saturday one American and six British servicemen were killed when two Royal Navy Sea King helicopters collided over the Gulf, in what was described as a "tragic accident".
That incident followed another helicopter crash in Kuwait the day before in which eight British Royal Marines and four US airmen were killed.
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From: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s814102.htm
A British Royal Air Force plane listed as missing after an operation in the Gulf early Sunday (local time) was hit by a United States Patriot missile, a US military official said.
"I can confirm that the British plane was hit by a Patriot," an official with the US Central Command said.
"The crew is missing."
The official who asked not to be named provided no further details.
A Ministry of Defence official in London earlier said the plane had gone missing after an operational mission and "might have been engaged by a US-operated Patriot missile battery near the Kuwaiti border."
He said it was not yet possible to say what sort of plane was involved or how many crew it contained as no families had been contacted.
He also declined to say what mission the aircraft had been carrying out when it went missing.
On Saturday one American and six British servicemen were killed when two Royal Navy Sea King helicopters collided over the Gulf, in what was described as a "tragic accident".
That incident followed another helicopter crash in Kuwait the day before in which eight British Royal Marines and four US airmen were killed.
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