NewsWhore
04-21-2010, 05:10 PM
A small plane carrying a drug consignment was shot down yesterday five miles off of Saona Island by an army helicopter assigned to the National Drug Control Department of (DNCD).
According to reports, the helicopter was fired at from the aircraft after the helicopter crew ordered the small plane to land at a specific spot. When the aircraft refused to land the DNCD team had no other choice but to respond by returning fire, shooting down the aircraft. According to intelligence sources, DNCD agents found part of the fuselage and some of the drugs that had been dropped. Before the confrontation, the plane made two attempts to drop the drugs, but both were thwarted by DNCD personnel in the area. The DNCD has yet to determine the quantity of drugs being carried by the airplane.
This was the first recorded confrontation between drug traffickers and the "Deproser" Joint Task Force assigned to the DNCD. As of yesterday, the authorities had not found any trace, dead or alive, of the people on board the aircraft. However, they do have information suggesting that the airplane came from South America and that this was the first flight that it had made to the Dominican Republic.
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According to reports, the helicopter was fired at from the aircraft after the helicopter crew ordered the small plane to land at a specific spot. When the aircraft refused to land the DNCD team had no other choice but to respond by returning fire, shooting down the aircraft. According to intelligence sources, DNCD agents found part of the fuselage and some of the drugs that had been dropped. Before the confrontation, the plane made two attempts to drop the drugs, but both were thwarted by DNCD personnel in the area. The DNCD has yet to determine the quantity of drugs being carried by the airplane.
This was the first recorded confrontation between drug traffickers and the "Deproser" Joint Task Force assigned to the DNCD. As of yesterday, the authorities had not found any trace, dead or alive, of the people on board the aircraft. However, they do have information suggesting that the airplane came from South America and that this was the first flight that it had made to the Dominican Republic.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#2)