Peruvian Air Force/same as DR Jets

I don't know who sent me the email regarding the Missionary Cessna that was shot down by the Peruvian Air Force, but the "Interceptor" that shot the plane down was the same A-37 "Dragonfly" that are flown by the Dominican Air Force .

You should see them over San Isidro, little side by side (Pilot/BN) sttraight stubby winged sub sonic ground attack jets, very distinctive for the high pitched "buzz" of the twin minature GE Turbo-jets. They were originally designed as primary Jet trainers for the US Air Force and Navy and later exported as ground attack aircraft to almost every latin American Airforce as a very inexpensive option.

tom i beleive i read the fighter was a soviet-russian type they got for cheap,not that it matters much i just hope next oct. the dr pilots are not as trigger happy,especially around airliners.

John

You may be confusing this with the Soviet Licensed MIG 21 (F-8) that was flown by the Chinese on the recent incident with the US "Aries" over the South China sea.

The incident in Peru was ironically an "All Cessna Event" The surveillance aircraft being operated by the CIA was a Cessna Citation V, The Peruvian Jet was a Cessna A-37-B "Dragonfly" and the doomed planed was a Cessna 185 Float

no tom,i was talking about the peruvian fighter,but no matter,but i was wondering what the f8 fighter from china was.now i know.that was a real shame about those people just trying to do some good in this world and that happens..

i was talking about the people on the plane shot down in peru when i mentioned about people doing good,sure not the chinesse air force for what THEY did.

They (the missionary group) had apparently been flying that same route for over 25 years, 3000' in broad daylight above the Amazon hardly fits the "drug profile" The A-37 can drop back to the same speed as the 185, making visual ID easy, pretty hard to see 5 people, including one child and one infant and identify them as "drug smugglers"

From reports on CNN, the AF jet strafed the survivors after the pilot was able to land the crippled float plane on the River. From what is being reported it was pure murder