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That the international community as a whole generally abhors the Reactions to a number of civil aircraft shootdowns, it is safe to say The sky and surfaced again in reaction to the Cuban shootdown of civilĪircraft belonging to the Brothers to the Rescue (BTTR) Group in 1996. When the Soviet Union shot Korean Airlines Flight 007 (KAL 007) out of Maintained a consistently negative attitude toward the use of weaponsĪgainst civil aircraft in flight, (3) a disapproval that peaked in 1983 From the beginning of the Cold War, the U.S. While one cannot argue with the general success of the shootdownĬomponent of the ABDP, the shootdown of civil aircraft has long been a Until the shootdown of OB-1408 inĢ001, the interceptor forces of Colombia and Peru had shot down, forcedĭown or strafed with gunfire a number of civil aircraft suspected ofĬarrying illegal drugs on the basis of real-time intelligence provided The Defense Department and from other Cabinet Agencies in the earlyġ990s, the Governments of Colombia and Peru introduced this shootdownĬomponent to interdiction operations. In the shootdown of suspect aircraft since 1995. While the shootdown of civil aircraft engaged in drug running datesīack at least to the early 1990s, the ABDP has been officially involved Luminoso (SL) or 'Shining Path' group of Peru, insurgentįorces responsible for enormous suffering in these countries. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Sendero States and is known to support such terrorist and insurgent groups as Has been classified as a threat to the national security of the United The ABDP had long operated as one part of a larger 'war onĭrugs.' The target of this war, the drug trade in South America, Of the shootdown program code-named the Air Bridge Denial Program This incident was the low-water mark in the history Missionary and her infant daughter, both killed by the gunfire from the Two people on the aircraft were killed, a U.S. Unfortunately, the aircraft was notįerrying drugs but rather carried members of an American Baptist

Small Cessna floatplane (OB-1408), (2) after it had been identified as a support was suspended in 2001įor more than two years in the wake of an unfortunate incident in whichĪ Peruvian A-37 interceptor, operating as part of a joint U.S.-PeruvianĬounter-narcotics mission, fired two salvos of machine gun fire into a Heavily on the airborne tracking and intelligence that only the United The shootdown of suspected drug aircraft by countries such asĬolombia and Peru is not new, and the success of such operations relies Quite effective in their ability to deter airborne drug traffickers. Near future is possible, and the initiation of such an operation withīrazil is now under discussion. (1) The recommencement of similar operations with Peru in the Track, intercept and even shootdown aircraft suspected of carryingĭrugs. to again share real-time intelligence with Columbia to counter-drug operations in Latin America,Īllowing the U.S. Bush approved a plan to resumeĪ key component of U.S. APA style: The Air Bridge Denial Program and the shootdown of civil aircraft under international law.The Air Bridge Denial Program and the shootdown of civil aircraft under international law.' Retrieved from Air Force Academy, Department of Law 29 Sep.

#Airbridge denial program jiatf south free

MLA style: 'The Air Bridge Denial Program and the shootdown of civil aircraft under international law.' The Free Library.