After watching the Wasp Network on Netflix last night, I went back and looked at a story I wrote more than 20 years ago to see how reality matched up with the cinema tale of the Cuban spies who infiltrated organizations in Miami in the 1990s.
The core incident happened on Feb. 24, 1996, when Cuban MiGs shot down two unarmed Cessna Skymasters operated by Brothers to the Rescue.
I spent more than a month analyzing this incident for the Miami Herald. What follows is based on recordings made by US and Cuban air traffic controls: