Originally Posted by
BluSdUp
I Norway we lost a Widerø Twin Otter in the late 70s or early 80s due to a Harrier.
The problem was it happened way east of the line Norway had drawn for NATO aircraft as a buffer before you hit the Soviet border.
Was all blamed on the Otter crew. Many years later it turned out the Harrier was using it as target and bumped into it.
Well that is a fairly extravagant assertion. Three separate Norwegian investigations all concluded it was structural break-up - there was no blame attached to the crew.
The allegations that it was caused by a Harrier intercept also have no evidence.
Moreover, the Harrier pilots who would have been flying on that exercise will now all be happily collecting their pensions so have nothing to lose - do you really believe that they would not come forward and admit it if they had really accidentally killed some fellow aviators of a very friendly allied country like Norway?