Video Appears to Show Insurgents Kill a Downed Pilot

By JOHN F. BURNS

Published: April 23, 2005

BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 22 - The man in the dark blue flight suit lay face-up in the tall scrub grass looking up nervously at the video camera. Above him stood men with Kalashnikov rifles who had tracked him down to the only cover near where his helicopter had been shot down in the desert.