My name.......Jose Jimenez
Posted on 12/18/2008 4:56:35 PM PST by Sammy67
A Britten-Norman Trislander, the kind of small aircraft that disappeared off the Dominican Republic Monday with 12 on board.
A small Caribbean airplane that vanished into thin air Monday was allegedly stolen by a fired Dominican Navy cadet who may have been trying to carry illegal immigrants to America, the plane’s owner told FOXNews.com.
Luis Perez, the Puerto Rico-based owner of the aircraft charter company, said his twin-engine plane was stolen by an unlicensed pilot named Adrian Jimenez. Authorities told him Jimenez was a student of the Dominican Republic Armed Forces and a former Navy cadet.
“They took his pilot’s certificate away, because the only certificate he had was a helicopter rating and he was operating airplanes,” Perez told FOXNews.com.
Dominican Pilots Association president Pedro Dominguez confirmed that Jimenez had his license revoked in October 2006 and was not authorized to fly.
Luis A. Irizarry, the lawyer investigating the disappearance for Perez, said Perez's pilot flew the plane to the Turks and Caicos island of Providenciales for a test-flight by a potential buyer.
“They arrived there on Monday morning and by Monday afternoon that airplane was taken," he said. "There is no airplane wreckage found, and no fuel — maybe they disappeared in the Burmuda Triangle."
Coast Guard Continues Search for Plane That Mysteriously Disappeared Plane Carrying 11 Missing En Route to New York Jimenez told Perez’s pilot that the plane had already been sold to him, loaded 11 people onto what he
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My name.......Jose Jimenez
Ed Sullivan: “Say, is that a crash helmet?”
Jose: “Oh, I hope not.”
ping to a mystery
Thanks for the ping Velveeta.
bump
They just want to come here to make a living as pilots for Mexican drug cartels that American's won't fly for.
BTTT!
I’ll fly for them ,, I’m Multi-Instrument and need cash! Why let ethics get in the way , our own gov’t allows vans loaded with hundreds of pounds of drugs to enter freely... hell they even let drugs in by the rail car load on occasion... ie. “operation rite rail” http://www.real-debt-elimination.com/bank_fraud/drug_smuggling_at_the_border.htm
Vel, I heard a very brief notice about this on Fox the other day and then no follow up. Thanks for the ping. Strange.
Thanks for the ping, so full of twists, one can only say, “mystery” plane.
Two engines on a three engine plane. Someone must have stolen an engine. ;0)
Thanks for the ping to that thread AuntB.
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