After being discovered unlawfully entering Mexican airspace, a plane carrying more than half a tonne of cocaine was impounded in the Campeche state in the country’s southeast.
The narco plane was coming from Colombia, according to Campeche governor Laysa Sansores, and was seen on Saturday by the nation’s air monitoring system.
According to the Ministry of National Defense, two Air Force planes and three helicopters were sent from a facility near Mexico’s southern border to follow the drug trafficking plane.
The aircraft ultimately touched down on a field 49 kilometres to the east of Miguel Hidalgo, a community in Campeche.
On the ground, security personnel were ready to detain the jet’s crew. However, the people rushed off fleeing and vanished into the woods.
460 1/2 kilogrammes of cocaine were found in 38 small bags marked “VIP” when soldiers searched the aircraft.
Sansores tweeted, “I’m pleased of the intelligence work of the Mexican Army and the cooperation of (Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office) and the (Campeche State Attorney General’s Office), which permitted the discovery, interception, and seizure of an air craft carrying half a tonne of cocaine from Colombia.
The Mexican military has stopped a second plane this month.
On August 5, a tiny plane from South America carrying 136 kilogrammes of cocaine was stopped and made to land in the southern state of Chiapas.
When they saw the military approaching close to the landing area, a group of drug dealers waiting for the cargo escaped. There were no detentions.
Security personnel seized a speedboat loaded with 1,600 kilogrammes of cocaine on August 6 off the coast of Michoacán state in the Pacific Ocean.
The Ministry of National Defense said that the big consignment was transported from either Colombia or Ecuador, and three people were detained for trafficking it.