AutonomousCritical
US Air Force's Patriot Missile Mistakenly Launched at Ally Fighter Jet, Killing Two
- Occurred
- Mar 22, 2003
- Published
- May 20, 2004
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Acting on the recommendation of their Patriot missile system, American Air Force mistakenly launched the missile at an ally UK Tornado fighter jet, which killed two crew members on board.
Developers
- Raytheon
- Lockheed Martin
Deployers
- US Air Force
Harmed parties
- US Air Force
- UK Royal Air Force
- Kevin Main
- David Williams
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 100%
Rationale: Autonomous weapon system error caused death of two personnel.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8