SOUTH CIRCUIT Presents
The murder of 3 Americans, and a legal resident of United States.
International air space, between Key West and Cuba

 

Brothers-To-The-Rescue is an organization based in Miami, Florida integrated by Americans, Cuban Americans and Latin Americans. It is dedicated to assist Cubans in the Florida Straight trying to escape Communism.

On the morning of 24 February 1996, two of the Brothers to the Rescue Cessna 337 airplanes departed Opa Locka airport in south Florida. Before departing, the two aircraft notified air traffic controllers in both Miami and Havana of their flight plans, which were to take them south of the 24th parallel.

While the two aircraft were still north of the 24th parallel, the Cuban Air Force ordered the scrambling of two military aircraft, a MiG-29 and a MiG-23, operating under the control of a military station on Cuban soil. The MiGs were carrying artillery, short-range missiles, bombs, and rockets

The MiG-29’s air-to-air missiles disintegrated the Brothers to the Rescue airplanes, killing their occupants instantaneously and leaving almost no recoverable remains. Only a broad slick of oil marked the place where the planes were downed. A third Brother-To-The-Rescue airplane was able to escape flying inside the clouds.

Why in the International airspace?:

They were in international waters because America’s Southern Command verified the position of all airplanes. Beside there were two groups of eye-witnesses; first tourists in a cruiser took video pictures and the Captain of the ship calculated their position; second there were two fishermen who also corroborated the position of the airplanes.

Juan Pablo Roque a Cuban Air Force pilot faked desertion and arrived to Miami in 1992. He was able to penetrate the open organization Brothers-To-The-Rescue. He flew with them several missions in the Florida Straight to help boat refugees throwing them food, water and radios.

One day before the Cubans shot down the airplanes Roque returned to Cuba surreptitiously through The Bahamas. The Cuban plan was to use Roque to testify the Brothers-To-The-Rescue mission that day was a terrorist one, provided there were no survivors. Roque was going to appear as a survivor rescued by Cubans from the sea

Months before the Cuban crime, Brothers To The Rescue had thrown leaflets from their airplanes with the Proclamation of Universal Human Rights of the United Nations. Some of these leaflets fell on Havana streets.

In the incident two young American born citizens were assassinated. Another a naturalized American citizen and a Cuban resident of Miami were all killed.

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They were all trained pilots following all regulations. The airplane that escaped carried another pilot a Doctor and his wife. President Clinton administration did not have a strong response to this crime.  

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Control to MIG 29: MIG 29 lift-off, veer 90 degrees and straight ahead.

MIG 29 to Control: ahead on 90 degrees.

Control to MIG 29: copied, what is your altitude.

MIG 29 to Control: 1,700 meters.

Control to MIG 29: are you beneath the cloud ceiling?

MIG 29 to Control: repeat.

Control to MIG 29: are you beneath the cloud ceiling?

MIG 29 to Control: there are no clouds in here.

Control to MIG 29: OK keep looking beneath your right side.

MIG 29 to Control: OK I copy I veer right.

Control to MIG 29: keep 90 degrees ahead.

MIG 29 to Control: OK I read you…I see three airplanes ahead. They are together…now they separate.

Control to MIG 29: OK I copy you.

MIG 23 to Control: I am looking towards my left, there is an airplane coming from the north.

Control to MIG 29: We are going to search 30 kilometers north of Havana. (Transmission broken)

MIG 29 to Control: I copy.

Control to MIG 29: Transmission was interfered by static.

MIG 29 to Control: negative, ahead 70 degrees.

Control to MIG 29: static.

MIG 29 to Control: 270 degree OK, give me a bearing I cannot see them. OK.

Control to MIG 29: are you still turning left?

MIG 29 to Control: repeat.

Control to MIG 29:are you still turning left?

MIG 29 to Control: I copy, yes.

MIG 23 to Control: airplanes ahead, 70 degrees north of Havana.

Control to MIG 23: what is your altitude?

MIG 23 to Control: 200.

MIG 29 to Control: towards north.

Control to MIG 29: (transmission very weak.)

MIG 29 to Control: Roger the target is north of Baracoa. Ahead, 270 degrees

Control to MIG 29: correct, bear 270 degrees towards…(chopped transmission.)

MIG 29 to Control: roger.

MIG 23 to Control: ahead

Control to MIG 23: (weak transmission) ahead of 330, we are looking north.

MIG 23 to Control: look left of 330, correct.

MIG 29 to MIG 23: there is a large ship. (The cruiser that took the film)

MIG 23 to MIG 29: I saw it.

Control to MIG 29: turn on your weapons radar.

MIG 29 to Control: connected.

Control to MIG 23: connect your weapons radar and get ready.

MIG 23 to to Control: connected.

Control to MIG 23: look for them beneath your airplane.

MIG 29 to Control: beneath us 30 kilometers north of Baracoa Beach.

MIG 23 to to Control: I am over the parameters.

Control to MIG 23: what altitude the airplanes have?

MIG 23 to Control: 200

Control to MIG 23: I copy you.

MIG 29 to Control: 1500

Control to MIG 29: begin to turn right, bear down, 30 degrees.

MIG 29 to Control: Do you show pilot 08?

Control to MIG 29: pilot 13.

MIG 23 to Control: Roger, 30 degrees to my right, I have it beneath me, is a very large ship.

Control to MIG 23: you have your target 10 degrees to tour right at a distance of 12 kilometers.

MIG 23 to Control: negative, it is a very large ship.

Control to MIG 23; keep looking for it.

MIG 23 to Control: roger, I am turning 270 degrees left.

MIG 23 to Control: what I have on my left is a very large cruiser ship.

Control to MIG 23: do you have the target I told you. It was in front of you.

MIG 23 to Control: now is on my left.

Control to MIG 23: roger, do you see the target?

MIG 23 to Control: repeat

Control to MIG 23: you have your target at 30; I have it in front of you.

MIG 23 to Control: OK, I have it. It is a ship.

Control to MIG 23: roger lets see a little bit in front. Doesn’t that ship has a radar balloon outside?

MIG 23 to Control: negative, I cannot see anything over it.

Control to MIG 23: roger, do you have pilot “08” functioning?

MIG 23 to Control: yes

Control to MIG 23: this is for “08,” now connect the UVD (ultraviolet detector)

MIG 23 to Control: roger, UVD connected.

MIG 29 to Control: connected.

Control to MIG 29: continue search in the zone.

Control to MIG 23: your target is north of Santa Fe at a distance of 25 kilometers.

MIG 23 to Control: roger, now I am on a course 180 degrees at an altitude of 1,000.

Control to MIG 29: repeat.

MIG 23 to Control: roger I am on a course 180 degrees at an altitude of 1,000 meters.

Control to MIG 23: roger

MIG 23 to Control: I am doing a sweep of 90 degrees, ahead towards my right. You have it on your left 30 degrees on your left.

Control to MIG 29: do you copy me?

MIG 29 to Control: repeat.

Control to MIG 29: the target. (Transmission cut)

MIG 29 to Control: look at it. (Transmission cut)

Control to MIG 29: to your left.

MIG 29 to Control: OK the target is in my instruments. It is a small airplane. I copy it is a small airplane.

MIG 23 to Control: OK we can see it now, we can see it.

MIG 29 to Control: we have radar acquisition.

MIG 23 to MIG 29: we have it in the radar.

MIG 29 to Control: we can see it now.

Control to MIG 29: roger

MIG 23 to Control: it is a small airplane, a very small airplane.

MIG 29 to Control: that is our target… it is white… white.

MIG 23 to MIG 29: I am going up to an altitude of 2,000 meters high.

Control to MIG 23: color and matriculation of the target.

MIG 23 to Control: the registration number too?

Control to MIG 23: what color.

MIG 23 to MIG 29: it is white and blue.

MIG 29 to Control: White and Blue OK

MIG 23 to Control: It is white and blue. It is a small airplane flying at low altitude. It is a small airplane. Give me instructions.

MIG 29 to Control: give me instructions.

MIG 23 to Control: Hey! Give me the authority

MIG 29 to Control: we are going to fly over them… we are going over them.

MIG 23 to MIG 29: if we go over them this can become complicated.

MIG 29 to MIG 23: we are going over them.

MIG 23 to Control: talk to us… talk.

Control to MIG 23: tell me if you are receiving me.

MIG 29 to Control: I have them on my sight… on the crosshair.

MIG 23 to Control: we have them on the sight give us the authority.

MIG 29 to Control: it is a Cessna 337.

MIG 23 to MIG 29: that is the target…that’s it. Give us an authorization. (Jubilant screaming)

Control to MIG 23: I got it. (Jubilant screaming)

Control to MIG 29: you are authorized to destroy them.

MIG 29 to Control: I am firing.

Control to MIG 29: you are authorized to fire.

MIG 29 to Control: we copied you… we copied you.

Control to MIG 29: you are authorized to fire.

MIG 29 to Control: where is it now, in front?

Control to 08: you are authorized to fire.

MIG 29 to Control: we are ready.

Control to MIG 29: you are authorized to fire.

MIG 29 to Control: roger, I received it.

MIG 29 to Control: dammed… now. (coño now)

Control to MIG 29: did you fire already?

MIG 29 to Control: first shot, missile out. We hit them dammed it… we hit them. (Jubilant screaming)

MIG 23 to MIG 29: (Jubilant screaming)

MIG 29 to MIG 23: we broke their balls. (Two pilots in each MIG)

MIG 23 to MIG 29: wait… wait see where it fell.

MIG 29 to MIG 23: we broke their balls. (Cojones). Mark the place where we hit them. You got it? We beat the shit out of them.

MIG 23 to MIG 29: that one is not going to bother any more.

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