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March 13, 2004

Aero-News Quote Of The Day (03.13.04)

"A real foul-up, a first-class foul-up." Source: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, upon learning that a flight recorder, missing since 1994, had been found locked away in a file cabinet at the agency's headquarters in New York. The black box was salvaged from the crash of a Falcon-50, in which the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi were killed. The aircraft had been downed by a pair of SAMs. The shoot-down sparked 100 days of genocide in the African nations, leaving 800,000 people dead.

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