SANT PERE SULA.
About 600 kilos of cocaine carrying a plane were burned after crashing when it tried to land in a border area with the Mosque, Where about 60 men waited to transport the cargo.
the plane was detected upon entering Honduran airspace by the Mosque, So the authorities activated the security protocol.
Yesterday at 01:25, after being monitored by helicopters, the ship fell on a tree near where they were waiting, spilling fuel, which caused it to catch fire already on the ground.
The pilots managed to get out of the aircraft and took a minimal amount of drugs, as the fire did not give them time to get out more, according to investigations.
The plane and most of the drug shipment were burned in the vicinity of the Claura River jurisdiction of Iriona, Columbus, bordering the Mosquitia.
Military elements walking by helicopter faced gunfire with armed subjects who were part of a group of about 60 men waiting to lower and transport the cargo.
Agent investigations anti-drugs point out that the plane came from South America and was taken to Honduras for groups of drug traffickers operating in The Mosquito.
Yesterday teams of the Technical Agency for Criminal Investigation (Attic) arrived at the area where the Piper plane was burned, white with red stripes, of which only the back remained.
On one of the wings was the initials IGR.
Most of the front of the plane was burned, as was the part where the kilos of cargo were loaded. cocaine.
In the vicinity, the researchers collected several plastic drums that they used to carry fuel, lights, fire extinguishers, axes, machetes and sacks.
The aircraft was expected by the group of men in vehicles that would be in charge of carrying the road; but the pilots who tried to land on a plain hit the tree.