Pilot and plane owner arrested

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According to a report in today's Listin Diario, the Dominican Civil Aviation Institute (IDAC) has announced the arrest of a pilot and the owner of a plane for supposedly carrying out an illegal flight. The pilot is suspected of having commanded what started out as a domestic flight and then became an international flight without the people on board passing through Dominican Migration. Diario Libre says that the arrested men are pilot Roberto Henriquez Pougeois and aircraft owner William Penalo Garcia, both Puerto Rican, who were handed over to the Migration Department's investigative unit. According to IDAC director Jose Tomas Perez, the pilot took off from Portillo in a blue and white Cessna 172, registration N6028YM, after filing for a flight to Punta Cana International Airport. When the flight did not arrive within the normal flight time, Dominican authorities contacted the authorities in Puerto Rico and learned that the aircraft had landed at Isla Grande Airport. IDAC says that hours after landing in Puerto Rico, the pilot returned to the Dominican Republic, this time piloting a Moony M20E, tail number N3377X, that landed at the El Catey International Airport in Samana. The IDAC seized the Moony aircraft while the Cessna is detained in Puerto Rico.

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