WI: US pilots killed in Bosnia by Serb forces?

Okay, so I was watching Behind Enemy Lines on the television and it got me to wondering whether, if a US two-seater fighter jet was shot down and BOTH (not just one like in the movie) of the pilots were killed, would the US have been forced by popular opinion to intervene more forcefully in the conflict?

If they did, would it be merely in the form of air support, or ground troops? UN peacekeepers did engage in skirmishes with the belligerents on the ground on a few occasions.

If they did attack the Serbs with a ground invasion, would this embolden Croat and Bosniak troops to commit more ethnic cleansing atrocities, or would they be kept under tighter control due to American presence.
 
What are the circumstance of the pilots deaths?

Shot down by Serb mobile SAMs, successful ejection, captured on the ground and executed.

Serb motivation being that the pilots (being gung-ho individuals), strayed off of their flight path to somewhere they weren't supposed to be. Recon mission takes pictures of a massacre, so the Serbs shoot it down to destroy the evidence.
 
Short of an IS style execution video the the Serbs have plausible deniability in this situation.

US would probably bomb Serb SAM / AA sites but can't see a ground force intervening without a clearly defined goal.
 
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