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Hawker 800 Crash after Interception from Colombia Air Force
An unidentified Hawker 800 jet crashed into the waters off Puerto Colombia, Colombia after being intercepted by a Colombian Air Force plane after illegally flying into Colombian airspace. The aircraft departed from Venezuela and was bound for Central America. Video footage released by the Colombian Air Force show the Hawker's nr.2 engine on fire as it descended over sea. The aircraft impacted the water and broke up. At the scene of the crash a still undetermined number of packages were… (www.aviation-safety.net) Mais...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Why all the speculation about drugs. The accompanying Criminal Occurrence report clearly says 1.2 tons of drugs recovered and 4 bodies?
The initial report last week had 1 body and did not speculate on the contents of the floating packages. That may be why.
IN TIME, JUST FEEL SORRY FOR THE JET, IT WAS A HAWKER 800...A NICE ONE...
BRAZIL ON LINE.
BRAZIL ON LINE.
DRUGS ARE ACTUALLY THE BIGGEST DISGRACE IN METRO AND MEDDIUM URBAN AREAS IN BRAZIL, I GUESS WORLDWIDE. MANY INOCENT LIVES HAD BEING TAKEN AWAY FROM THEIR FAMILIES AS IT DRIVES OUT REASON OF THE MISERABLE USERS, WHO SHOULD BE IN JAIL AS WELL. THEY DO NOT MEASURE TO KILL AND TO DIE FOR DRUG. DIRTY MONEY...NOT WORTH IT. CONGRATS TO THE COLOMBIAN AIR FORCES ANYHOW FOR FIGHTING THAT TERRIBLE HUMAN PLAGUE THAT THREATENS THE WORLD WITH INNOCENT BLOOD.BRAZIL ON LINE.
I never saw where it said the flight started out illegally... I only saw where it entered Colombian airspace illegally.
From time to time the Venezuelan Air Force shoots down alleged drug aircraft and splashes the heriocs in the press to gain points but the DEA, FBI et all know exactly what is going on.
There was an animated argument between the two air forces (Venezuela's and Colombia's as to where the aircraft took off from prVor to the shot down. Venezuela says it departed from a Colombian airport however the venezuelan´s recanted the following day saying that the plane had landed in the city of Apure (Venezuela) in from some place Central America (México was suggested too) and departed without any cleareance or warning on a NNW heading. The argumented continued the followingoday when Colombia refuted Venezuela's claim that its air forcé shot it down whereas Colombia says that it was its air forcé that deserves the credit. The whole episode and the reverberations had a special meaning for the U.S. Government accused Venezuela VP Gen. diosdado Cabello and other top military officers to profit from drug money trafficking by allowing free passage to scores of small aircraft out of tis airports and on to Mexico and thence the U.S.