NewsWhore
10-05-2006, 03:10 PM
Illegal flights continue over Dominican airspace, especially in the eastern regions, and the authorities aren't able to stop them because they do not have the proper equipment to monitor the country's airspace. A tri-dimensional radar system would be able to detect low flying planes that currently do not appear on radars. In the last 45 days authorities have been notified of 20 unidentified flights in Dominican airspace. These developments are a concern for the National Drug Control Department, the Armed Forces, and government intelligence agencies. According to an unnamed official quoted in Diario Libre, the flights come from either Colombia or Venezuela, fly over the island, and drop their drug cargo over the old roads or sugar cane fields in the eastern region.
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