Scott Speicher: Difference between revisions

|chapter=Ch 12: The First Half of the Nineties |publisher=U.S. Navy |year=1997}}</ref> However, an unclassified summary of a 2001 [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] report suggests that Speicher's aircraft was shot down by a missile fired from an Iraqi aircraft,<ref name="CIA_summ">"Intelligence Community Assessment of the Lieutenant Commander Speicher Case". 27 March 2001. FOIA Electronic Reading Room. CIA. 10 September 2006.{{cite web|url=http://www.foia.cia.gov/docs/DOC_0000588922/0000588922_0001.gif |title=page 1 |access-date=2004-10-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041017122850/http://www.foia.cia.gov/docs/DOC_0000588922/0000588922_0001.gif |archive-date=17 October 2004 |df=dmy }} ,{{cite web|url=http://www.foia.cia.gov/docs/DOC_0000588922/0000588922_0002.gif |title=page 2 |access-date=2004-10-17 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041017122850/http://www.foia.cia.gov/docs/DOC_0000588922/0000588922_0002.gif |archive-date=17 October 2004 |df=dmy }} ,{{cite web|url=http://www.foia.cia.gov/docs/DOC_0000588922/0000588922_0003.gif |title=page 3 |access-date=2004-10-17 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041017122850/http://www.foia.cia.gov/docs/DOC_0000588922/0000588922_0003.gif |archive-date=17 October 2004 |df=dmy }}</ref><ref>[[Rick Atkinson|Atkinson, Rick]] (1994). ''Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War''. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p. 47. {{ISBN|0-395-71083-9}}</ref> most likely a [[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25|MiG-25]],<ref name="nyt121495">Weiner, Tim. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9800E6DF1739F937A25751C1A963958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1 "With Iraq's O.K., a U.S. Team Seeks War Pilot's Body."] ''[[The New York Times]]'', 14 December 1995: A1.</ref> flown by Lieutenant Zuhair Dawood, 84th squadron of the IQAF.<ref>Sadik, A., Zampini, D. "Tretij Den' (i posledujuschie...)" ["The Third Day (and beyond...)"]. [http://www.aviation-time.kiev.ua/eng/thejournal.php?IDJ=44 ''Aviacija i vremja'' (''Aviation and Time'') No. 6 (2005)] {{in lang|ru}}</ref> Speicher was at 28,000 feet and travelling at 0.92 [[Mach number|Mach]] (540 knots) when the front of the aircraft suffered a catastrophic event. The impact from the [[Bisnovat R-40|R-40]] missile threw the aircraft laterally off its flight path between fifty and sixty degrees with a resulting [[G-force|6 g]] minimum load.<ref name="CIA_summ"/> A pilot on the same mission stated: "I'm telling you right now, don't believe what you're being told. It was that MiG that shot Spike down."<ref name=Waters2003_p83>{{cite book