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I'm here locked in my box and there's bombs being dropped very close by and I'm thinking, am I going to survive this one is this the one is this where I'm going to die

Real people the rescue is extremely extremely risky it's just a radio on this guy's shoulder awaiting the

older to come in and kill us like rats. Who faced death? They actually had

assigned each guard a hostage to shoot. So they were very organized in how they were

going to go about killing us. And lived to tell how. These guys are serious. I mean they're not even going to try to get us out if there's

any hint of a rescue. We're dead instantly. This is I survived. It's February 2003 in Bogota, Colombia.

Keith and Mark work for a U.S. military contractor in Colombia.

They fly aerial surveillance in the US-backed anti-drug war.

My duties were a mission commander.

We were looking for counter- drug targets, some classified,

some unclassified that range from clandestine airstrips

to clandestine laboratories.

We worked on a Cessna Grand caravan airplane. It was painted white. It looked like a civilian airplane, but inside

it was filled with a lot of surveillance equipment. My job was to operate some of the

sensors in back of the airplane.

Basically, there were video cameras and still image cameras.

We would search for Arco Laboratories, cocaine laboratories,

transshipment points,

anything that drug cartels would use

to produce or transport drugs.

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