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Drug Plane Crashes In Costa Rica
    #13323727 - 10/11/10 11:34 PM (13 years, 7 months ago)

Drug Plane Crashes In Costa Rica
October 11, 2010 - insidecostarica.com



Authorities today are investigating how could a light plane taking off from the Pavas airport, headed for Guatemala, could be carrying 170 kilograms of drugs and no one noticed, until the plane crashed into a river off the runway.

The light plane crashed after taking off from the small international airport on the west side of San José. Airport security cameras show that the plane needed the entire runway to take off and residents say the saw the plan flying unusually low and off course from what they are accustomed to.

When the Cruz Roja (Red Cross), bomberos (fire fighters) and police arrive at the scene of the crash, noticed several packets of what appeared to contain drugs while attending to the pilot and passenger of the plane.

The director of Vigilancia Aera of the Fuerza Pública, Oldemar Madrigal, confirmed that the plane's pilot and passenger were taken to hospital and police guarded and collected the 1 kilogram packets containing cocaine.

The vice-ministro de Seguridad, Walter Navarro, was personally on hand at the crash site to direct police operations and promised a full investigation into the matter.

Records indicate that the light plane had been in Costa Rica for about two weeks and was being used by a group of businessmen who were scouting Costa Rica with the purpose of setting an "air taxi" company.

The traffickers hid the loading on the fuel tanks located in the wings, and authorities suspect that overweight in the wings affected the maneuverability of the single-engine plane.

The investigation will centre on why this and possibly other planes come and go without inspections.

Madrigal explained that the airport is mainly used for short flights within Costa Rica and inspections are different that for international flights and that the current plane is not on their radar due its low load capacity.

According to Madrigal, the packets of drugs were meant to be taken to the Aurora region in Guatemala.

Madrigal added that the plane had a four-hour flight schedule but it had fueled for six hours flying.

The crash came after a week of major drug busts in other Central American countries, among them the seizure in Honduras of 460 kilograms of cocaine in the country's Caribbean region last week.

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