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...drawn into the conflict - at first guarding the relief, then delivering it, then attacking the warlords that were stealing it. In October 1993, in events depicted in the film Black Hawk Down, Somali militiamen shot down a Blackhawk helicopter over Mogadishu and 18 U.S. servicemen were killed in the crash and subsequent rescue attempt. After gruesome scenes of the bodies of some American servicemen being stripped and paraded through the streets of the city were flashed around the world, the U.S. withdrew from Somalia by March...
...Marshall, which deals with a much larger tragedy. In 1970, a small college's entire football team (save a couple of players left behind because of injuries) was wiped out in an airplane crash as it returned home from a loss on the road. The devastation that wrought on a small school and a small town, both of which pretty much lived and died with the successes and failures of its sports teams, was huge and seemingly irreparable. Many, possibly most, of the students and fans wanted to shut down the program, the better to concentrate on mourning. But they...
...Federal Police's decision to charge them with "endangering a vessel or aircraft," a crime roughly equivalent to involuntary manslaughter, wasn't serious enough to keep them in the country, and many see it as much an indictment of their nationality as of their role in the crash. Moreover, critics argue that the charges simply mask the shortcomings of Brazil's own deteriorating military-run commercial aviation system...
...meantime, the focus is firmly on the air traffic control system at the center of the controversy. If anyone doubted that the system urgently needs an overhaul, the weeks after the crash provided ample proof...
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