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Why Was the Missionary Plane Shot Down?

ByABC News
May 23, 2001, 5:00 PM

May 24 -- On the morning of April 20, something went terribly wrong with a military program designed to stop the flow of drugs from Peru. Before the day was over, two American civilians were dead and U.S. and Peruvian officials were scrambling to explain why.


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