SAN PEDRO SULA.
About 600 kilograms of cocaine carried by a plane were burned after an accident when it tried to land in the border area with Mosquitia, where about 60 men were waiting to transport the goods.
aircraft was detected at the entrance to Honduran airspace by Mosquitia, so the authorities have activated the security protocol.
Yesterday, at 1:25 in the morning, after being followed by helicopters, the ship fell into a tree near where they were waiting, spilling fuel, which caused it to catch fire on the ground.
The pilots managed to get out of the aircraft and took a minimum amount of drugs, because the fire did not give them time to get more, according to investigations.
The plane and most of the drug transport were burned in the vicinity of the Claura River, Iriona jurisdiction, Colón, on the border with La Mosquitia.
Military elements traveling by helicopter were shot dead by armed individuals who were part of a group of about 60 men waiting to disembark and transport the goods.
Agent investigations anti drugs points out that the plane came from South America and was brought to Honduras for drug trafficking groups operating in Mosquitia.
Yesterday the teams from Technical Criminal Investigation Agency (Attic) arrived in the area where the Piper plane, white with red stripes, was burned, 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 kilograms of cocaine.
In the vicinity, investigators collected several plastic drums that they used to transport fuel, lights, fire extinguishers, axes, machetes and bags.
The aircraft was waiting for the group of men in the vehicles to be in charge of transport road; but the pilots who tried to land on a plain hit the tree.