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The ABWE has many resources about the tragedy on its site, including photos, biographical sketches of Roni Bowers and others, links to media coverage, and other items.

The aviation area of the JAARS site has an article on "The 'Glamour' of a Jungle Pilot," recruiting information, and other resources.

Mission Aviation Fellowship's site has MAF-related news from around the world, an "e-mail a missionary" program, and other resources.

Mission Safety International's site doesn't have much apart from a few paragraphs describing the organization.

Other media coverage of the shooting includes:

Peru Sees Missionary Jet Probe Concluded Next Week — Reuters (May 7, 2001)

Risking their lives for faith | The mistaken killing of a missionary and her daughter in Peru underscores the serious peril that many face. Believers say that fearlessness is the essence of their calling. — Los Angeles Times (May 5, 2001)

Downed U.S. Plane Inspected in Peru — Associated Press (May 4, 2001)

Law agencies estimate 50 planes shot or forced down in drug war — CNN (May 2, 2001)

Missionaries facing world of new perils | Hostage-takings, robberies among on-the-job risks — Chicago Tribune (Apr. 28, 2001)

Simple, devoted lives on the Amazon | Tragedy does not appear to have weakened the ardor of the five remaining American missionary families who troll the Amazon around Iquitos on their houseboats for weeks at a time, playing gospel music from loudspeakers like pied pipers playing for souls. — The New York Times (Apr. 28, 2001)

Missionaries are a daring, dauntless band inspired by faith | As a foreign correspondent in Peru, I was awed by the almost indescribable passion missionaries brought to their work. Georgie Anne Geyer, Universal Press Syndicate/Chicago Tribune (Apr. 27, 2001)

Peru missionaries face dangers | For the two dozen or so U.S. missionaries who work in northeastern Peru, it's a life of risks. — Associated Press (Apr. 27, 2001)

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June 11 2001, Vol. 45, No. 8