2005 Royal Air Force Hercules shootdown [SEP] point in time
2005 Royal Air Force Hercules shootdown
The 2005 Royal Air Force Hercules shootdown was the loss of a Royal Air Force Lockheed C-130K Hercules C3, serial number "XV179", callsign Hilton 22, when it was shot down in Iraq, probably by Sunni insurgents, on 30 January 2005, killing all 10 personnel on board. At the time, the incident was the largest single loss of life suffered by the British military during Operation Telic.
The Board of Inquiry report in December 2005 identified the lack of a fire
Operation turned up actual proof of an internationalist jihadist movement.
- 2005 Royal Air Force Hercules shootdown, 2005, Iraqi insurgents shot down an RAF Hercules flying out of Baghdad in January 2005, in response to this G Squadron of the 22nd SAS Regiment immediately began hunting down the insurgents responsible, after a long intelligence operation that led to operations later in that year the SAS captured some of those responsible.
- "Task Force Black/Knight", 2004–2008, the new UKSF mission and deployment was codenamed Operation Crichton,