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...have to be a bit adventurous and nutty to do it," he told a TIME correspondent before a mission two years ago. "But there's nothing like saving a life." Last Saturday afternoon, Costa almost certainly gave his own life when Cuban MiGs shot down two Cessna Skymasters belonging to Brothers to the Rescue. Costa was one of four lost with the planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BLOWN OUT OF THE SKY | 3/4/1996 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Clinton today called Fidel Castro's regime "repressive and violent," and announced a list of sanctions designed to send a stern message to Havana. Clinton was responding to the downing of two Cessna aircraft by Cuban MiG jets last Saturday afternoon. Cuban leaders insist that the two planes, belonging to an anti-Castro organization "Brothers to the Rescue," were in Cuban airspace, and were warned to turn back. Clinton Monday unveiled a battery of punitive measures against Cuba. Included were proposals to compensate the families of the downed airmen with funds from frozen Cuban assets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton Announces Sanctions for Cuban Shoot-down | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

Traffic was light on the north-bound lane and neither Zerros Zachary nor his Cessna 15 single-engine two-seater was damaged, said Mary Culver, spokesperson for the Federal Aviation Administration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pilot Makes Emergency Landing on Highway | 1/22/1996 | See Source »

...Grady's father headed a surgical team on a ship off North Vietnam in 1972. He used to take Scott with him in his small Cessna when the boy was 5 and 6 years old. "He always wanted to go into the Air Force," the senior O'Grady recalled. "He always wanted to be there, to fly F-16s and see action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RESCUING SCOTT O'GRADY: ALL FOR ONE | 6/19/1995 | See Source »

...course, only a couple of months, ago, a lunatic crashed his Cessna into the White House. And a few weeks later some idiot fired a couple dozen rounds into the West Wing. While Clinton was upstairs watching television...

Author: By Brad EDWARD White, | Title: Look Who's Talking | 11/30/1994 | See Source »

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