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military aircraft near the Venezuelan coast on Friday.
The Miami Herald reports an Air Force plane crossed directly in front of the JetBlue flight at close range.
That's according to newly released air traffic control recordings.
The military plane was an air-to-air refueling tanker, which the JetBlue pilot reported did not have its transponder on.
Transponders send data to other planes to avoid midair collisions.
US Southern Command confirmed that it was reviewing the matter, which comes amid broader scrutiny of US military operations in the region.
The two students who died in the mass shooting at Brown University have been identified as 18-year-old Muhammad Aziz Umurzikov, a freshman, and 19-year-old Ella Cook, a sophomore.
The AP reports that Umurzikov planned to study medicine after suffering a neurological condition himself that required surgery.
His sister told the AP her brother had so many hardships in his life, and after getting into Brown, he worked hard to follow through on his promise to become a neurosurgeon.
Cook, meanwhile, was vice president of Brown's College Republicans and was described as a bright light by her church pastor in Mountain Brook, Alabama, where she was from.
Her fellow college Republicans said that she was bold, brave, and had a kind heart.
They said they were devastated by her passing.
Meanwhile, authorities are still looking for a suspect in the shooting and have offered a $50,000 reward.
And finally, in Sydney, as mourners gathered to pay tribute to the victims at Sunday's Hanukkah festival shooting, one man who is being credited with saving lives insisted that he is not a hero.
The publication The Australian reports on Ahmed Alamed.
He's the man seen on video appearing to disarm one of the shooters from behind.
A man who was his immigration lawyer and visited him in the hospital said that Ahmed had no regrets and that he would do it all again if he had to.
A GoFundMe page set up for him has reportedly raised over a million dollars as he receives treatment in the hospital.
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