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Airwars Assessment
(Previous Incident Code: I037)
According to an internal CENTCOM document, according to a self-reported night time incident involving an American aircraft may have caused civilian casualties: “US F-16 may have unintentionally struck the nearest collateral object (NCO) and unintentionally struck a car that moved into the FOV [field of view.]“
The outcome of any investigation at the time the document was collated (most likely early May 2015) was not known.
Local media did describe a car as being among the objects destroyed in Coalition raids on the day.
As of December 2017, the outcome of any assessment remained unknown.
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Geolocation Notes
Reports of the incident mention the city of Tall Afar (تل عفر), for which the generic coordinates are: 36.375659, 42.451536. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.