Roni Bowers

Roni Bowers

Roni Bowers (died April 20, 2001) was a Christian missionary. [Cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101010507-107933,00.html |title=A Mission Interrupted |accessdate=2008-09-13] Roni, her daughter Charity, husband, and son were being flown into Peru when the United State's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ordered the Peruvian Air Force to shoot the plane down, believing that they were carrying drugs out of the country.Cite web|url=http://www.mpp.org/victims/roni-and-charity-bowers.html |title=Roni and Charity Bowers |accessdate=2008-09-13] Roni and her seven month old daughter, Charity, were killed in the shooting. The pilot, Kevin Donaldson, was shot in the leg but managed to land the plane. Roni's husband, Jim, and her six year old son Cody were not injured. [Cite web|url=http://www.wwrn.org/article.php?idd=3405&sec=21&cont=8 |title=WorldWide Religious Network News -Peru Missionary Relives Plane Tragedy |accessdate=2008-09-13] [cite web|url=http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0881091.html |title=Veronica Roni Bowers, 2001 People in the News |accessdate=2008-09-13]

After the event, the US government temporarily suspended the practice of shooting down planes over Peru and Columbia. The US Government then settled with the Bowers family for 8 million dollars, before resuming the practice of shooting down suspicious planes.

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