Brazilian Air Force Super Tucano takes out another drug plane

Fleeing from a Super Tucano of the Brazilian Air Force (FAB), traffickers abandoned, after being forced to make a forced landing, an aircraft used to transport drugs, which ended up burning in a sugar cane plantation in Mirante do Paranapanema, in the interior of São Paulo.

It was unknown whether the fire was caused by shots fired from the Super Tucano or whether the aircraft caught fire after landing. The occupants of the aircraft were not located, and, according to the police, there were no traces of victims at the site.

A Brazilian Air Force Super Tucano flew over the area shortly after the incident. Immediately after the police arrived on the scene, the wreckage of the suspect aircraft was on the ground, in flames.

Police obtained information that the aircraft was being followed by a FAB fighter from the neighboring state of Paraná – suggesting that it probably entered Brazilian airspace from Paraguay – and that the pilot disobeyed an order to land.

According to the police, before the crash landing in the middle of the sugar cane plantation in Mirante do Paranapanema, the crew members had thrown a load of narcotics from the aircraft while flying over the Terra Rica region (north of Paraná and close to the municipality where the accident occurred in the state of São Paulo).

Authorities suspect that the occupants of the plane, hit by the fighter, made a forced landing in the middle of the cane field and then set fire to the aircraft on their own, as a blowtorch was found in the vicinity of where the plane was destroyed by fire, minimizing any evidence.

With information from Grupo Edefa

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