CIA shoot down of Float Plane - very unfortunate

[TexasNick]

Well, the title is probably a little misleading, but I think it gets the point down. What are your thoughts on this? Watch this graphic video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBj2PGP0xXk

[58Skylane]

DAMN!!! That sucks!!

[GumpAir]

That was a Flight International Lear doing the intercept in that incident, for whom I happened to be flying for at that time with their Alaska operations. Giant cluster.

Gump

[Green Hornet]

Victims of the failed war on drugs that continues because the American trial lawyers / politicians are against repealing the Prohibition of Drugs. Same thing happened during the prohibition of alcohol. Why can't history be acknowledged. There will always be collateral damage in war. The same people who are against the USA defending itself from jihadist are for the war on drugs. Imagine if drugs were legal and taxed. The revenue would eliminate the deficit. Of course laws would have to be made that would not allow Hollyweird to glamorize drug use and real education would have to take place. Above all we would have to become more spiritual rather than decadent. There are still some of us who could teach self respect! Americans are reported to use trillions of dollars of illegal drugs so what has been accomplished in the past 75 years with the War and prohibition? A non taxed cottage industry, a distracted CIA, Border Patrol , Police! Prisons filled with drug addicts, disease being spread and a country with a lot of collateral victims. Oh! and lawyers making money from both sides of the table. The definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing expecting a different results. How pathetic is that?
Legalizing Drugs is a common sense approach that is dismissed so out of hand with some lie that is lapped up like ice cream. Would it be perfect solution? Hell no! but it would be an improvement on what has been going on for decades with disastrous result. You better believe it! Alcohol has it negative impact on lives but it is not as bad as being demonically possessed by a war that is unnecessary and lost!

[ccurrie]

wow what a bunch of assholes! too bad governments cant concentrate on stuff that maters.

[hicountry]

Despickable!!

[NEpilot]

Here is a link to the story -

Congress isn't very happy with the CIA

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/justice-d ... id=9737718

[180Marty]

In August 2001, my Aunt and I went to Bolivia to visit her daughter. We rode in a missionary 206 from Santa Cruz south to the Villa Montes area. Then we went to Brazil to visit a foreign exchange student she hosted in 1972. He had a friend that had a Mooney and a Rotax powered Pelican. This friend had his pilot give me a ride in the Pelican and when he heard I'd also flown in Bolivia, he said that he'd never fly there----they shoot first and ask questions later. Made me feel fortunate.

[qmdv]

Was there no flight plan. Is one required. I am not offering it as an excuse, just wonedering.

Tim

[side slip]

I have to say that I'm not impressed with the Peruvian shootdown, the pilot was actually able to land on the water.
If the decision has been made to shoot down an aircraft, then shoot it till it's a flamng ball, don't slightly wound it and watch it fly on.
Very sad that it happened at all though.

[1SeventyZ]

Was there no flight plan. Is one required. I am not offering it as an excuse, just wonedering.

Tim

You'd think that would be a good way to legitimize a given flight with the officials who may try to shoot at you.

[mtv]

In many parts of the world, there simply is no communication capability, at least ten years ago, when this occurred. Nowadays, there's satellite phones, but not everyone has one of those.

I suspect they departed from somewhere that didn't exactly have pay phones on ever tree....

MTV

[NineThreeKilo]

Funny the two CIA boys say to each other they are making a mistake and let the idiot in the A-34 kill two Americans, why didn't the CIA tell the A-34 to break off when the guy contacted tower!! Bet the next of kin never even got an apology...

If your flying in that part of the world better sell your light single engine aircraft and call these guys up

http://www.prideaircraft.com/flanker.htm