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  1. Not unheard of! 2003-03-23: BCS reports: ""U.S. Missile Kills 2 British Pilots" A U.S. Patriot missile battery shot down a British fighter plane Sunday near the Iraqi border with Kuwait, killing the two fliers on board, the British military said. The RAF Tornado GR4 was returning to Kuwait from air attacks that destroyed Republican Guard forces outside Baghdad, U.S. Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks said in Qatar. A statement from the Royal Air Force base at Marham, in Britain, confirmed the two crewmembers were dead. It did not identify them. "They were returning from one of many successful and professionally conducted missions in Iraq, and I would like to pay tribute to their expertise and dedication," Wing Commander Mike Oldham of Britain's Marham base said in a statement. The downing was the first confirmed "friendly fire" death in the U.S.-led war on Iraq and was a blow to British forces. Fourteen other British servicemen have died in two accidents during the war - the crash of a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter and a mid-air collision of two British Royal Navy helicopters. Five Americans were also killed in those incidents. Asked how a U.S. missile could have brought down the plane, Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, told ABC's "This Week" that "procedures and electronic means to identify friendly aircraft and to identify adversary aircraft ... broke down somewhere."
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