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12-19-2008, 03:40 PM
An Institute of Civil Aviation (IDAC) investigating commission on the disappearance of a private plane that filed a flight plan to Bahamas has recommended the suspension of Dionisio Parra, inspector for aero-navigability, Ramona Fidelina Santos, collections clerk and Virgilio Cordero Mateo, airport safety officer at the Cibao International Airport in Santiago. The commission also ordered a legal investigation of pilots Julio Romero and Pascual Reynoso, who flew the plane in from Puerto Rico, for their ties to the disappearance of a flight with 12 people on board. The pilot filed a flight plan to the Bahamas, but it was reported that it made a stop in the Turks & Caicos, took off again and the last that was heard was a distress call made when it flew over the West Caicos.
IDAC director Jose Tomas Perez reiterated his determination that he would not permit corruption to tarnish IDAC's image as long as he was heading the institution.
Missing pilot Adrian Jimenez is now suspect of people smuggling.
An editorial on page 6 of El Caribe newspaper lamented the fact that as in the case of the Paya drug-related murder that opened a can of worms of corruption among navy officers, a tragedy had to occur in order to disclose the suspected practice of using private planes for people smuggling. Now it is in the open that pilot Adriano Jose B Jimenez Henriquez had a tarnished track record, but questions are now being asked about how was he still authorized to fly.
In today's Listin, Cesar Medina points out that Jimenez was expelled for fraud from the Academia Batalla de las Carreras on 30 April 1985, but nevertheless had a career of 23 years in the Army, Navy, Aviation and even a stint working for the National Investigations Department, the local FBI stationed in Barahona.
Now Dominican consul in the Bahamas Hernando Perez Montas says that private flights to the Bahamas and Turks & Caicos with undocumented travelers have been a frequent occurrence. The Bahamas is now revealed to be a stopping point for flights to the US. As reported in Diario Libre, Perez Montas said that a month ago Customs and Migration officers detained several people from the Bahamas and seized an airplane that had arrived in the country illegally to pick up travelers for suspected smuggling to the islands. The passengers all had forged visas or none at all.
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IDAC director Jose Tomas Perez reiterated his determination that he would not permit corruption to tarnish IDAC's image as long as he was heading the institution.
Missing pilot Adrian Jimenez is now suspect of people smuggling.
An editorial on page 6 of El Caribe newspaper lamented the fact that as in the case of the Paya drug-related murder that opened a can of worms of corruption among navy officers, a tragedy had to occur in order to disclose the suspected practice of using private planes for people smuggling. Now it is in the open that pilot Adriano Jose B Jimenez Henriquez had a tarnished track record, but questions are now being asked about how was he still authorized to fly.
In today's Listin, Cesar Medina points out that Jimenez was expelled for fraud from the Academia Batalla de las Carreras on 30 April 1985, but nevertheless had a career of 23 years in the Army, Navy, Aviation and even a stint working for the National Investigations Department, the local FBI stationed in Barahona.
Now Dominican consul in the Bahamas Hernando Perez Montas says that private flights to the Bahamas and Turks & Caicos with undocumented travelers have been a frequent occurrence. The Bahamas is now revealed to be a stopping point for flights to the US. As reported in Diario Libre, Perez Montas said that a month ago Customs and Migration officers detained several people from the Bahamas and seized an airplane that had arrived in the country illegally to pick up travelers for suspected smuggling to the islands. The passengers all had forged visas or none at all.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#7)