These German Air Force comments are exceptionally unusual and prejudicial at this stage when our knowledge of the facts is, to say the least, incomplete. Firstly, issuing a public commendation to a pilot just involved in a fatal collision then releasing an statement emphatically blaming the dead pilots, before even their remains have been found! Had it been the typhoon which went down and the management of the target company acted like this, it would rightly have caused the most furious outcry on these pages!
True. Sadly, this isn't the first example of poor
PR handling by German armed forces officials.
Both pilots killed were ex-military aviators.