Carlos Costa (pilot)

Carlos Alberto Costa was a private pilot, US born US citizen with Cuban ancestry, who was killed when his plane was shot down by Cuban fighters over international waters near Cuba on February 24, 1996, while flying a humanitarian search and rescue mission, seeking out Cuban refugees adrift at sea in rafts (the so-called "balseros"). He was educated at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.[1][2]

In popular culture

Film

Wasp Network, 2019.

Literature

Book: Seagull One by Lily Prellezo, 2010.
Book: The Last Soldiers on the Cold War by Fernando Morais, 2011.

References

University of Minnesota Human Rights Library (1999). "Armando Alejandre Jr., Carlos Costa, Mario de la Pena y Pablo Morales v. Republica de Cuba, Case 11.589, Report No. 86/99, OEA/Ser.L/V/II.106 Doc. 3 rev. at 586 (1999)". Retrieved 2007-12-07.
Prellezo, Lily (2010). Seagull One. USA: University Press of Florida. ISBN 978-0-8130-3490-4.

External links

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[1] University of Minnesota Human Rights Library (1999). "Armando Alejandre Jr., Carlos Costa, Mario de la Pena y Pablo Morales v. Republica de Cuba, Case 11.589, Report No. 86/99, OEA/Ser.L/V/II.106 Doc. 3 rev. at 586 (1999)". Retrieved 2007-12-07.

[2] Prellezo, Lily (2010). Seagull One. USA: University Press of Florida. ISBN 978-0-8130-3490-4.