European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 r the stars and stripes thursday july 14,1994 time line for Friendly fire incident time Zulu. Azacs Cougar f-15 Tiger Black Hawks Eagle Azacs departs in Ciurlik a. Black Hawks depart Diyarbakir Turkey 0545 wags begins tracking Black Hawks. 0616. A a he character appears on radar scope meaning computer has identified Black Hawks As Friendly. 0621 Azacs acknowledges Black Hawks. Track designated �?oee01�?� for Eagle flight. Black Hawks report to Azacs that they Are entering the no Fly zone Black Hawks land at Lakhu. 0624 Black Hawks fade from radar. 0635 f-15s depart in Ciurlik a. 0654 Azacs receives Black Hawks radio Call and re initiates Quot Deqi Quot Sambo Yoav to resume tracking. Black Hawks Call Azacs to report they Are in route from a whisk Eye Lakhu to Quot Lima Quot for big. 0655 a a a Quot begins to be regularly displayed on radar. A 0705 f-153 Check in with Azacs Onetti route frequency. A a a a a a a a 0711 a a he ceases to be displayed on radar. 0712 Black Hawks radar and Iff contacts fade computer symbology continues to move at last known Speed and direction. Black Hawks enter mountainous terrain. 0713 Arrow placed on radar in Vicinity of Black Hawks last known position. A a a a a a 0715 Azacs radar adjusted to \ Low velocity detection settings. 0720 f-t5s enter no Fly zone and calf. Azacs on no for 2one Frauen cd 0721 �?oee01�?� Black Hawk symbology dropped by Azacs. 0722 no Fly zone controller responds a clean Here Quot meaning he sees nothing on radar. Lead f-15 reports radar Contact at 40 Miles away. I a a v a a if. 0723 intermittent Iff response appears i Vicinity of f-15s\ reported radar Contact. 0725 a a he Symbol reappears on radar. 0725 0726 Black Hawk Iff response becomes More frequent. No Fly zone controller responds to Al 5s with a hits there Quot meaning unidentified Blip sighted on radar f-15 Lead Calls a Contact radar / responds that target is approximately 20 Miles. = a a. A a a a. A a a a a a a a a a. Black Hawk Iff response continuous radar Blip becomes a intermittent. A. 0727 he route controller initiates an 1 a unknown pending j 1  Symbol in Vicinity of Black Hawks Iff radar images attempts Iff interrogation. A a. A i j 0728 Biack Hawk Iff and radar responses fade i f-15 Lead visually sights helicopter five Miles a was. -----------1 a. A i a. A a _. I 1 0728 Azacs acknowledges a copy f-15 Lead conducts visual identification j i Hinds _ pass and Calls a a. Taitz 2 Hinds. A it 1 j 0728. It f f-15 Wingman also conducts visual 1 30 _ pass Calls tahv2.&Quot -0729 t 1.  f-15 Lead instructs Wingman to a farm hot Quot and gives instruction for Independent targeting. 0730 f-15 Iead fires air intercept missile at Trail helicopter. Trail Black Hawk hit by missile 0730a f-15 Wingman fires a missile at Lead helicopter. Lead Black Hawk hit by missile. T 0730 f-15 Lead reports a splash 2  �?�?�?-1-�?-- Iff identification Friend or Foo Black Box a a Downing from Page 1 Dent which occurred in Clear weather in a mountainous Region in Northern Iraq. A there were multiple causes of the shoot Down any one of which if it had not existed might have prevented the Accident a said Andrus the commander of the 3rd air Force at Raf Mildenhall England. . Military officials in Europe were responsible for drafting the Accident report. A defense department source speaking on condition of anonymity said Pentagon lawyers were debating How to proceed with possible compensation to the families of those who perished. But Perry said a Federal Law is very strict on what we can and cannot do for families of those killed during military service. We will follow those  Perry added a personal message to those family members by saying those killed a were heroes who died to save the kurd. You can be proud of their  Andrus said the investigation showed that the helicopters were using an electronic system known As identification Friend or foe that is designed to avoid fire from Friendly forces. He said an air Force Azacs radar aircraft in the area had detected the identification signals but failed to inform the f-15 fighters that shot Down the copters. Andrus said the Crew of the airborne warning and control system aircraft a did not understand their responsibility in the Mission. Andrus said the f-15 pilots were not aware that . Black Hawk helicopters would be operating in that area. A few minutes before the f-15s fired the Azacs transmitted a message to the Jet fighters that the pilots interpreted As confirmation the helicopters were iraqi. The f-15 pilots were at a distance Altitude and Speed that made them unable to spot the . Flags painted on the sides of the helicopters Andrus said. The f-15 Lead Pilot reported he had visually identified the copters As iraqi Hind helicopters which were prohibited from flying in that area. The Lead f-15 made a final Effort to determine electronically whether the helicopters were Friendly and receiving no reply fired a radar guided missile that downed the Craft Andrus said. A second f-15 fired a heat seeking missile at the other helicopter hitting it. The two f-15 pilots made a final pass Over the shoot Down area and then continued of their regular assignment the general said. The helicopters were ferrying officials from several nations on a Mission supporting . Humanitarian Relief efforts on behalf of kurd in the area. Fifteen of the dead were military officers from the United states. The others were five kurd three officers from Turkey two from Britain and one from France. The Pentagon investigation lays out a Trail of human error extending from the crucial moments before the shoot Down to the aftermath. Pentagon officials earlier reported that the f-15 pilots were Given the go ahead to attack by controllers aboard an Azacs radar plane but other controllers apparently were aware the helicopters were not hostile. They failed to communicate that to the fighters. A defense department source said wednesday that the report May Lead to criminal indictments or courts martial against some of those involved and that punishments would be handled at the military service level. The source also confirmed that some of the Azacs Crew members refused to cooperate with investigators and that a four minute Gap had been found in a videotape of the Azacs Crew activity at the time of the shoo Down. The Gap was apparently the result of an inadvertent erasure rather than a deliberate move to conceal evidence the source said. Contributing to this report staff writer Cindy Killion in Washington