'Bye-bye, Miss American Pie': US pilot mock-sings as missile hits target (VIDEO)

Published time: July 06, 2012 13:14
Edited time: July 07, 2012 20:39
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In the latest uproar surrounding American troops in Afghanistan, video has been released of an American pilot singing an impromptu rendition of Don McLean’s ‘American Pie’ at the exact moment a rocket strikes Afghans on the ground.

The video appeared on Liveleak.com and is already generating controversy for a US government that has had to deal with multiple scandals involving deplorable conduct of American troops in Afghanistan.

The video, taken from the cockpit of an AH64 Apache helicopter in the 101st airborne division, shows an air raid on an Afghan roadway. As the pilots close in on the target, they release a hellfire missile. The targets can be seen as little white spots in the middle of the road. They turn to run, and the moment before they are engulfed in flame, one of the pilots comes over the com with his rendition of the most famous line of the American classic. 

"While on patrol in the Wardack province our Apache Pilots aka "Mexican" encountered innocent farmers planting poppy seeds in the middle of the road. Working in concert with ground forces they eliminated the threat with ONE Kilo Hellfire," the caption by Liveleak.com on the video reads.

"At the 01:39 mark you can hear the pilot singing "Bye Bye Ms. American Pie" right before impact then BOOM….the rest is history. Enjoy and have a Happy Fourth of July."

Whether or not the targets in question were in fact farmers planting poppy seeds cannot be independently confirmed.

As the survivors of the strike run for cover in the surrounding structures, the pilots continue their attack with lighter fire, to which one of the pilots coolly remarks "you missed". As one of the targets hides in the neighboring building one of the pilots, possibly the same Don McLean fan, asks “I have eyes on the building. You want me to shoot the building?” to which he receives a negative response.

This is only the latest in a series of revelations which has forced the US armed services to launch damage control investigations into the conduct of its soldiers.

An official investigation is already underway of footage posted by the same website in January that apparently depicted American soldiers urinating on the dead bodies of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. The soldiers can be heard making quips such as "Have a great day, buddy" and "Golden like a shower" while carrying out the disturbing act.

Comments (152)

Dolomite (unregistered) 10.07.2012 01:02

What is the problem? They sang a song and blew someone up in the course of war. Did Russia forget how many years they spent blowing people up in Afghanistan? This website, RT is such hog wash.

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RT brought to you by the Russian govt (unregistered) 09.07.2012 12:25

The Bill O'reilly, Glenn Beck, Fox Agitprop: Edward Bernays style manipulation (unregistered) wrote in #4
blah blah blah First of all, I do not live in the U.S. but, anyone can see they are trying to make the world a better place. Secondly, almost all countries on earth resort to some type of propaganda.  I looked up Edward Bernays, interesting, I guess RT has read his book.  He was probably the one behind the U.S. Red Scare in the 60s. However, that is in the past. Americans don't care about Russian politics as long as people are not getting killed. When people are dying, then they swarm like bees to raise attention. The guilty party might not appreciate the bad publicity though.  
The west is not worried about a Russian invasion because neither side would want to destroy the world. Russia and their govt owned RT however obviously care about U.S. politics to devote the majority of an English language website dedicated to the topic. Russians are still stuck in the past with their paranoid outlook that the West is the boogey man coming to get them. The West does not care. The west wants the fighting to stop. The Russians just want to sit on the side and sell tickets to the show. Russia has a naval base in Syria, either stop the fighting or get out of the way. That is all they need to do. They have a world obligation to help keep the peace. Unlike WWII when they invaded poland with the Nazis. In Syira they are calling the shots.You should look up the following. GlavlitG ustav Klutsis Goskomizdat Eastern Bloc information dissemination Russi a Radio JammingGosteleradio
Every single article on here is a smear campaign to portray the west as an evil empire. A lot of the comments show how the people have been brained washed. I am in a neutral country not in nato or former soviet union. We are not involved in any wars and have no enemies I know of. RT has not one positive article about the west. That is not objective journalism, that is an entity trying to point out all the negatives in order to bring the rest of the world down to the gutter level they are.  
The U.S.  had an era back in the 60s called the Red Scare when most American were paranoid about Russia attacking. Well, the west has moved beyond that and now Russia is going through the same unjustified paranoia. So go hide in the closet, the americans are coming to get you.

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The Bill O'reilly, Glenn Beck, Fox Agitprop: Edward Bernays style manipulation (unregistered) 09.07.2012 10:18

wesley (unregistered) wrote in #13 I see the Agitprop is back to divert attention from what is really going on in the world.
What you see on FOX news Agitprop Media is like a bees nest getting pelted with rocks, then the bees going crazy. The commentators say 'Ooh, look at those bees, wow, their crazy!' but they don't show them being pelted with rocks. If you want to know more about propoganda, or, 'public relations', you should educate yourself about the great 'Edward bernays',Sigmund Freud's nephew, who used his uncle's research to tap into the 'id' so as to make consumers make decisions impulsively based their programming. Before the 1920's it was taboo for women to smoke in the US (they were arrested if caught), but he soon changed that by getting women in scantily clad attire to march with cigarrettes at an Easter parade in New York, proclaiming them as 'torches of freedom'. He created a generation of women smokers, but that is by no means his only contribution to history. In fact, he was quite proud to name his model of opinion moulding 'The Engineering of Consent'. You should look him up, but that might upset your little fantasies about Bond 007 and his kremlin foes. For the love of all things good, if anyone of you can give me SOMETHING to research to back the claims of the jingoistic belches, so as to give that from which one may form an unbiased view on the masters of Russian Agitprop, please do it. Otherwise, keep churning out your dissaproval of what you don't like to hear like a clockwork, for there's a proportional relationship between the depths of ones comments, and the nature of the attitudes behind them, which is all the more reason to be a great ambassador to your country.

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