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1.5 tonnes of drug inside a King 300 making an emergency landing at Caribbeans

Bogotà, Colombia - Cocaine was destined to US market

Colombian police discovered 1.5 tonnes of cocaine inside a light airplane which made an emergency landing at the airport of San Andres Island due to a mechanical fault yesterday. Plane was an US-registered Beechcraft King Air 300 and passengers would have quickly escaped after landing leaving the aircraft on. One of two, the pilot, has been successively stopped and arrested through the island’s streets a...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 126779
Rome, Italy, 09/13/2005 15:05
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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