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On a warm summer evening in August 2005, flight 708 took off from Tocumen International Airport in Panama City, carrying 152 passengers largely from Martinique, returning home after a vacation. Among them were four cabin crew members, a dispatcher, an engineer, and two pilots: 40-year-old Captain Omar Opa and 21-year-old First Officer David Munaz. Both pilots had faced recent monetary stress; the airline had not compensated them for months, pushing Opa to open a restaurant to support his family.