NewsWhore
11-26-2007, 04:50 PM
Clandestine flights over the southernmost territory of the Dominican Republic are becoming ever more frequent, according to reports from the Dominican Air Force. Air Force Chief-of-Staff General Rafael Pena Antonio told Diario Libre reporter Leoncio Compres that radar units at Punta Cana and Las Americas did not have the range to track these illegal flights and that drug traffickers were currently taking advantage of this blind spot. A recent news story about a new radar unit on display at San Isidro Air Base reported that this new equipment could cover the entire Dominican territory at a cost of several million dollars. The Air Force chief said that as many as five flights a week cross Dominican waters along the Pedernales and Bani coastlines. As yet, the Air Force has not received all the equipment for the new Super Tucanos that were purchased to patrol the local air space.
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