On 20 April 2001, the Peruvian Air Force (FAP) shot down a civilian floatplane, killing American Christian missionary Veronica "Roni" Bowers and her infant daughter Charity.

[1] While flying into the Loreto Region of Peru, Bowers, her daughter Charity, husband Jim, and six-year-old son Cory were being followed by a United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) observation plane.

A CIA officer told Peruvian Air Force official that it may have been possible to have the plane land in Iquitos for inspection.

The Dragonfly approached, at which point the pilot of the Bowers's plane made contact with the Iquitos control tower, noting that the FAP has showed up, and that he was not sure what they wanted.

The plane is was on fire, and the CIA observed it crash into the Amazon River, in the Pebas District, and turn upside down.

The CIA pilot observed a boat in the river attempting to rescue the plane's occupants, and one officer said, "Get good video of this.

In the Bowers case, CIA personnel protested the identification of the missionary plane as a suspect drug trafficker.

[9] Pete Hoekstra (the highest ranking Republican on the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence), who published these findings in November 2008, criticized the CIA for the "needless" deaths.