8/8: Peru plane shot down as drug runners, pullled out of water

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Since yesterday was a plane wreck, here's another way you can die from general aviation: being shot down over Peru by the Peruvian Air Force and CIA contractors while performing missionary services.

A few days ago when they recovered the plane, the nightly news had some audio of the CIA guys, who seriously suspected that something was amiss about this. One of them says something like, "This could be a huge mistake." But they didn't speak the language and couldn't tell the Peruvians to hold tight.

The result, as you see, a pretty good shot and a few more innocent lives gone. What's remarkable about this one is, again, the survivors. Two people died instantly but three survived as the plane crashed into the Amazon.