MEXICO CITY – Thieves stole a commercial plane from an airport in central Mexico, took it to Venezuela, loaded it with drugs and then flew to Guatemala, where the plane crashed, the government said Thursday.
Guatemalan prosecutors said a total of 4 bodies were discovered around the place where the BAE 125 plane crashed and burned wednesday.
The dead may simply not be identified, but drugs and weapons were discovered in the burned remains of the device, which the government called Hawker 800.
The illegal return flight began Tuesday in the town of Cuernavaca, south of Mexico City, where it arrived on August 10 and was stationed in a personal hangar.
Mexico’s Civil Aviation Agency said three other people had requested permission to refuel the aircraft, allegedly to conduct maintenance checks on the aircraft, then, without permission, rolled to a runway and took off, without having completed a flight plan.
Authorities followed the plane as it flew south.
The Guatemalan army said the aircraft made a prevention in Venezuela before entering Guatemala, which borders Mexico, and crashed for unknown reasons.
Theoretically, the drug discovered on the plane may be on board since he left Mexico, however, there would be little explanation as to why to move drugs to Venezuela, which is a cocaine transit center in South America. on board in Venezuela.