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Local October 1, 2021 - 8:26 am

‘Narco-planes’ continue violating Dominican airspace

‘Narco-planes’ continue violating Dominican airspace

Santo Domingo.- In the last 12 months, around nine incursions by “narco-planes” from South America have been registered in the national airspace, of which at least four have crashed on land.

The most recent incursion was recorded at dawn yesterday, when a Cessna plane of other unknown data, tried to penetrate Dominican territory, which drew the pursuit of Super Tucano planes, which forced it to land in a vacant lot in the municipality of Oviedo, Pedernales province.

Inside the plane were 277 packages of cocaine, which were hidden in compartments

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