NewsWhore
09-22-2008, 03:00 PM
A small plane carrying four people and a drugs consignment crashed into the mountains of southwestern Pedernales (Pica Cafe, Jaisa) on Saturday. According to initial reports, the four died in the crash. Roberto Lebron, spokesman for the DNCD said that four packages of cocaine of an undetermined value and weight were found on board, but other packages were said to have burned after the crash. News reports suggest that several men who were waiting for the cargo on the ground had fled the scene. The sparsely populated southwestern coastline is a popular area for planes to dump their drug cargo for retrieval by accomplices on the ground.
Armed Forces Minister Lieutenant General Pedro Rafael Pena, Police Chief Major General Rafael Guillermo Guzman Fermin and director of the National Drug Control Department Gilberto Delgado Valdez traveled to Pedernales by helicopter this morning to personally oversee investigations into the plane crash. A commission was appointed to determine the nationality of the deceased and the amount of kilos that the plane was carrying. The crash is attributed to bad weather. The authorities were tracking the plane when it disappeared from their radar. The DNCD speculates that plane had come from South America.
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Armed Forces Minister Lieutenant General Pedro Rafael Pena, Police Chief Major General Rafael Guillermo Guzman Fermin and director of the National Drug Control Department Gilberto Delgado Valdez traveled to Pedernales by helicopter this morning to personally oversee investigations into the plane crash. A commission was appointed to determine the nationality of the deceased and the amount of kilos that the plane was carrying. The crash is attributed to bad weather. The authorities were tracking the plane when it disappeared from their radar. The DNCD speculates that plane had come from South America.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#8)