Posted on 07/07/2020 7:23:50 AM PDT by Red Badger
ORIGINAL ARTICLE:
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/narco-plane-that-crash-landed-on-highway-was-tracked-from-venezuela/
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A private plane carrying 860 pounds of cocaine worth nearly $4.9 million crash-landed on a Mexican highway Sunday, sending the narco-traffickers scrambling into the woods to dodge police, according to a report.
The Hawker 700, which Mexican authorities said they traced from Venezuela, came crashing down with its illicit cargo on a state highway Sunday morning in Quintana Roo in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexican News Daily reported.
Video of the burning wreckage posted on Twitter by Alberto Capella, the province’s security minister, shows smoke billowing from the downed aircraft on the empty highway.
The crew fled into the forest before the military reached the scene shortly before 8 a.m. — but authorities said they recovered the drugs nearby when they stopped a truck that had been loaded up with the plane’s cargo.
Air Force officials told the Mexican newspaper Millenio, which originally reported the crash, that they began tracking the plane at 5 a.m. after it took off from Maracaibo, Venezuela. They said a military T-6C Texan plane was sent to intercept the narco plane and ordered it to land before it made the forced landing on the road.
This guy is on a horse as he passes by…
La matrícula de la aeronave aparentemente es XB-RCM y podría estar relacionada con actividades ilícitas. Autoridades federales atendiendo la investigación. pic.twitter.com/VcjWywriOe
— Alberto Capella (@kpya) July 5, 2020
Casi Entera la nave: comienza el fuego y Nadie hizo por apagarla. ¿Desaparecer la evidencia?. #NarcoEstado pic.twitter.com/aLrqGCMz2r
— rodrigo lope (@rodrigolope1) July 5, 2020
TRANSLATION:
The registration of the aircraft is apparently XB-RCM and could be related to illegal activities. Federal authorities attending to the investigation. pic.twitter.com/VcjWywriOe
- Alberto Capella (@kpya) July 5, 2020
Almost Entire the ship: the fire begins and No one did to put it out. Disappear the evidence ?. #NarcoEstado pic.twitter.com/aLrqGCMz2r
- rodrigo lope (@ rodrigolope1) July 5, 2020
Awk waard.
The plane/jet is worth more than the cargo and I'll bet insurance won't cover this.
Somebody’s gonna be pissed.
They lost a ton of coke and a jet airplane as well....................
Usually not if the aircraft was being used illegally.................
They weren’t high enough.....
They lost a ton of coke and a jet airplane as well....................
I'm sure a sincere apology will go a long way.
Well, I didn’t say it would go far enough.
Flyin’ that plane, high on cocaine. Casey Jones you better watch your speed...
The pilot and crew had better just turn themselves in to the DEA, then claim asylum from ‘Gang Violence’......................
Reminds me of the Rick Nelson plane crash..................
Well, it’ll go to the end of a rope................
Well, as Eric Clapton says...
“If you wanna get down, down on the ground,
Cocaine”
LOL!!!......................
If you wanna get hot,
And not spend a lot,
Propane....................
Isn’t a T6 Texan what you usually see painted up to look a Zero?
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