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Aircraft smuggling cocaine crashes in northern Colombia

Xinhua, May 21, 2015 Adjust font size:

A private aircraft smuggling cocaine crashed on Wednesday morning into the Caribbean in northern Colombia.

The Hawker-800 craft, which illegally entered the Colombian space during a flight from Venezuela to Central America, had been chased by Colombia's Air Force airplanes.

It had attempted a sea landing before crashing into waters by Puerto Colombia, according to an online report published by the Colombian navy, which recovered the pilot's body and the drug packages on the crashed aircraft. Endi