In Today's Daily Mail...

[MightyGem]

...and probably others before the anti Mail brigade get going.
We covered up Iraqi bomb attack which destroyed a £30million Hercules, admits MoD

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=566873&in_page_id=1770

[XV277]

Anyone who saw the (briefy posted) YOutube video of the destruction of the aircraft would understand why it was 'hushed up'.

And that was only for a few days - the knowledge that it wa sthe result of 'enemy' action was public knowledge pretty son after.

[MrBernoulli]

'Public' knowledge amongst others in various sections of the Forces, perhaps, but is was not generally public knowledge in the usual sense of the term.