Who owned drug plane that crashed in Mexico?

News Type: Event — Seeded on Fri Sep 28, 2007 4:21 PM EDT

Article Source: McClatchy News Service

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Some news reports have linked the plane to the transport of terrorist suspects to the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but those reports cite logs that indicate only that the plane flew twice between Washington, D.C., and Guantanamo and once between Oxford, Conn., and Guantanamo. No terrorist suspects are known to have been transferred to Guantanamo directly from the United States.

The jet, carrying the tail number N987SA, changed hands twice in recent weeks. But how it ended up in the hands of suspected drug traffickers remains a mystery.

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greenpagan

Where's Gary Webb when you need him?

Dead. An "apparent" suicide.

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#1 - Fri Sep 28, 2007 4:24 PM EDT

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Pamela Drew

Thanks for the Webb link; he was one heck of a journalist and it's clear who'd like him better dead.

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2 votes

#1.1 - Wed Oct 3, 2007 11:20 AM EDT

{"commentId":1066461,"authorDomain":"JStranahan"}

Jimster

Great reference GP

Gary's time here in Sacramento at the Sacramento News and Review was all too short. This story has haunted me since it burst into the press at the San Jose Mercury News.

Suicide? Two gun shots to the head? Hmmm...

Thanks for the seed.

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3 votes

#2 - Mon Oct 1, 2007 4:31 PM EDT

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Aine MacDermot

Who owned the DC9 N900SA with 5.5 tons of cocaine packed into 128 identical black suitcases onboard that was busted at the Ciudad del Carmen airport in Mexico on April 10, 2006? "On April 13, 2006, the aircraft was deregistered and sold to an unknown customer in Venezuela."

Three days between the bust and the deregistration and resale? Fishy, fishy, fishy...

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3 votes

#3 - Wed Oct 3, 2007 11:04 PM EDT

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Spooky Boyfriend

...okay, I'll bite...

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#3.1 - Wed Oct 3, 2007 11:15 PM EDT

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Aine MacDermot

If I had to speculate (and I have to, since nobody seems to know for sure), I'd say the plane owners were one of the following:

- Some rogue faction within the CIA that's running drugs to raise money for ... arms? Unmistakable signs of companies known to be CIA fronts and people considered to be Bush Family retainers. Who is 'Royal Sons LLC' if the President of Royal Sons, Frederic Geffon, claims to know nothing about what his plane was doing in Mexico with 5.5 tons of coke? Another: Brent Kovar, Tom DeLay appointee to the Business Advisory Council, part of the National Republican Congressional Committee.

- Some other sort of secretive global narcotics cartel?

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2 votes

#3.2 - Thu Oct 4, 2007 12:56 AM EDT

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greenpagan

Aine

Good post. Thx.

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#3.3 - Thu Oct 25, 2007 7:15 AM EDT

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MEXICO CITY: American business jet crashes with 4 tons of cocaine on board \| TheNewsTribune.com \| Tacoma, WA	The News Tribune	Fri Sep 28	1
Drugs on crashed plane belonged to Mexico's biggest dealer	mcclatchydc.com	Sat Sep 29	1
CIA Plane Crashes in Yucatan Carrying 3.2 Tons of Cocaine	pimpinturtle.com	Sat Sep 29	33

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