Two Causal Analyses of the Black Hawk Shootdown during Operation Provide Comfort

Ladkin, P.B. and Stuphorn, J.

We perform a Why-Because Analysis (WBA) starting from the information in the Executive Summary of the U.S. DoD Aircraft Accident Investigation Board report on the shootdown of two U.S. Army Black Hawk transport helicopters by U.S.A.F. F-15 fighter aircraft over Northern Iraq on 14 April 1994, during Operation Provide Comfort. We compare with the effort of Snook to perform a similar analysis.

Cite as: Ladkin, P.B. and Stuphorn, J. (2004). Two Causal Analyses of the Black Hawk Shootdown during Operation Provide Comfort. In Proc. Eighth Australian Workshop on Safety Critical Systems and Software (SCS 2003), Canberra, Australia. CRPIT, 33. Lindsay, P. and Cant, T., Eds. ACS. 3-23.

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