Ministry of Defense, National Drug Control Agency (DNCD), Dominican Institute of Civil Aviation (IDAC) and Attorney General Office reported on Saturday, 6 April 2019, on the landing of a passenger plane on Friday evening in a cane field in La Altagracia province in the east. The case is under investigation.
The authorities say that what is known is that the airplane had left from Venezuela and irregularly entered Dominican airspace at 10:25pm. The authorities had ordered the takeoff of a SuperTucano surveillance plane, but by 10:28 pm the airplane had disappeared from the radar.
At 5:50 am on Saturday, an Air Force helicopter and land forces located a Piper PA-31 Navajo aircraft, with has capacity for 10 passengers, with altered registration YV312 (Venezuela) that had been abandoned on the cane field near the crossing of San Rafael de Yuma on the Coral Highway, near Batey Los Tocones.
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8 April 2019