A Customs and Border Protection official disputes the findings, claiming that the drones are more effective than depicted in the audit and that they "directly" contributed to the seizure of 50,000 pounds of marijuana worth $122,000,000 along the Mexican border in 2013.
The audit finds that the cost of operating the drones is five times higher than estimated that the aircraft are plagued by maintenance problems and actually fly only 22 percent of the hours planned for them and that the drones have contributed to the apprehension of fewer than two percent of people illegally crossing the border from Mexico into Arizona and only 0.1 percent of those crossing illegally from Mexico into Texas. The United States Department of Homeland Security inspector general releases an audit which finds "little or no evidence" that the Predator B surveillance drones operated by United States Customs and Border Protection have met expectations or conducted effective surveillance operations during their nearly ten years of operation.Two in late December 2014 have been deemed credible, and investigations of the remaining three are only in their opening stages. The United States Department of Defense announces that it is investigating reports that airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria have inflicted casualties on civilians and has concluded that 13 of the 18 reports of civilian casualties – nine in Iraq and nine in Syria – between 8 August 2014 and 30 December 2014 are not credible.An American unmanned aerial vehicle-launched air-to-ground missile strike in North Waziristan, Pakistan, kills Ubaidullah, a leader of al-Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent.The Pakistan Army claims that air and ground attacks against Islamic militants in the country have killed 1,200 militants since the Pakistani armed forces began a military campaign against them on 15 June 2014.An air-to-surface missile strike by an American unmanned aerial vehicle against a compound in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan, Pakistan, kills seven Islamic militants and injures four others.Pakistani airstrikes in the Tirah valley in Pakistan 's Khyber Agency destroy four Islamic militant hideouts and a suicide bomber training center, killing 31 militants.Since mid- December 2014, the United States-led coalition against the Islamic State has conducted 13 airstrikes targeting the group around a base occupied by 300 American military personnel in Iraq 's Al Anbar Governorate.The deadliest crash of this year was Metrojet Flight 9268, an Airbus A321 which was destroyed by a terrorist bomb in the Sinai peninsula of Egypt on 31 October, killing all 224 people on board.Įvents January 1 January This is a list of aviation-related events from 2015. Shortly after taking off from the Colorado Springs airport, Mike Fritzel reported to air traffic controllers that he was “having engine problems - we’d like to turn around.” That was his last transmission.1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s Federal air crash investigators say in combination, those medications “significantly increased the risk of impairment over each medication alone.” Mike Fritzel had diphenhydramine (an antihistamine commonly found in Benadryl),cetirizine (an antihistamine commonly found in Zyrtec) and sertraline (an antidepressant commonly found in Zoloft) in his system. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s impaired performance due to his use of a combination of potentially impairing medications.” The NTSB listed the crash’s probable cause as: “The pilot’s loss of airplane control during the turn back to the airport after takeoff in high-density altitude conditions, which resulted in an inadvertent aerodynamic stall and subsequent spin. Their obituaries identify them as husband and wife. 9, 2015, Cirrus SR22 crash near the Colorado Springs Airport that left Mike and Paula Fritzel, both 63, of Roanoke, Texas, dead. That was the findings of a National Transportation Safety Board final report on the Nov. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close MenuĪ pilot’s use of several medications, which combined had the potential of leaving him impaired, likely contributed to his inability to deal with the high-workload environment of flying at high altitude before he crashed in Colorado Springs two years ago, killing him and his passenger wife.
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