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Drugs on crashed plane belonged to Mexico's biggest dealer

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The four tons of cocaine found aboard a U.S.-registered business jet that crashed in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on Monday belonged to Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, this country's most notorious drug trafficker, Mexican authorities said Friday.

The business jet that was transporting the dope to Mexico from Colombia was purchased just a week before the crash by a U.S. pilot with a history of legal and financial problems in Florida, interviews and official records indicate, but whether the pilot still owned the plane at the time of its crash is unknown.

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N987SA Grumman G-1159, Gulfstream II, was operated by S/A Holdings LLC and had apparently been involved in the renditioning of prisoners to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

This story sounds... familiar (N900SA).

In both cases, the backgrounds of the owners or the aviation/charter companies don't quite check out, and if I recall, both were based out of Florida.

I wonder how many other cocaine planes with similar mysterious backgrounds have been seized or crashed in the last few years?

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Reply#1 - Sat Sep 29, 2007 3:31 AM EDT
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