On 26 November 2009, he tendered his resignation as Inspector General after allegations were made against him of a cover-up relating to the 4 September 2009 Kunduz airstrike in Afghanistan. The strike was against two fuel tankers that had been hijacked by the Taliban but also resulted in the deaths of dozens of civilians. Schneiderhan was alleged to have failed to provide full information about the incident for several days after the incident maintaining that no civilians had been caught in the strike. The then Defence Minister, Franz Josef Jung, also played down the possibility of civilian casualties. A video taken by the American F-15 Eagle fighter bomber involved in the airstrike was leaked to the newspaper "Bild" and is said to have clearly depicted civilians in the target area.