Accident description
Last updated: 20 May 2013
| Status: | Preliminary |
| Date: | 24 SEP 2007 |
| Type: | Gulfstream Aerospace G-1159 Gulfstream II |
| Operator: | Donna Blue Aircraft Inc. |
| Registration: | N987SA |
| C/n / msn: | 172 |
| First flight: | 1975 |
| Engines: | 2 Rolls Royce 511 Spey |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Airplane damage: | Destroyed |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 2 km (1.3 mls) from Tixkokob (Mexico)
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| Phase: | Landing (LDG) |
| Nature: | Illegal Flight |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| Cancún Airport (CUN/MMUN), Mexico |
The Gulfstram bizjet was circling the Mexican town of Tixkokob. When being chased by Mexican military helicopters, the crew carried out a crash-landing. No bodies were found in the wreckage, but soldiers found 132 bags containing about 3.6 tons (3.3 metric tons) of cocaine.
Sources:
» Cocaine-laden plane crashes in Mexico jungle (Reuters 24-9-2007)
» Scramble 343
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
