WASHINGTON — A missionary whose wife and infant daughter were killed last year when their plane was mistakenly shot down by a Peruvian fighter jet is seeking $35 million in compensation from the U.S. government.
Jim Bowers worked with native tribes along the Amazon River with his wife and two children.
Bowers’ plane was targeted in a joint U.S.-Peruvian operation on April 20, 2001, when Peruvian officials mistook the plane for drug smugglers. The pilot of the missionary plane, Kevin Donaldson, survived but was injured by gunfire. Bowers’ wife, Veronica, and daughter, Charity, were killed by a single bullet. Bowers and his son, Cory, escaped after Donaldson managed to land the Cessna 185 on the river.
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