Matthew W. Bancroft, 29

As a child Bancroft vowed he would go to the U.S. Naval Academy and become a flier. The plane he was piloting crashed into a mountainside in Pakistan. An investigation found that the accident might have been prevented if the plane had been equipped with night-vision equipment.
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