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Security & Strategic Review October 2009 (ISSN 1741-4202)
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BRAZIL | Drug flight forced down by the air
force. On 30 October an unregistered flight by a light aircraft was
spotted by ground radar over the state of Goiás; as the pilot refused to
identify himself, an air force Super Tucano was ordered to intercept it. The
pilot refused to respond to the initial set of warnings, so the interceptor
fired two bursts of warning shots, at which point the aircraft landed in a
wooded area of the municipality of Cristalina. By the time the federal police
arrived on the scene, the plane's occupants had fled, leaving behind a cargo of
150 kilos of cocaine (it is not known if the occupants made off with part of the
cargo). The flight is thought to have begun in Bolivia.
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