ASN Aircraft accident Gulfstream Aerospace G-1159A Gulfstream III (N370JL) southern Belize
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Status:Little or no information is available
Date:Thursday 10 December 2020
Type:Silhouette image of generic GLF3 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
Gulfstream Aerospace G-1159A Gulfstream III
Operator:private
Registration: (N370JL)
MSN: 401
First flight: 1984
Total airframe hrs:5835
Cycles:3915
Crew:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Passengers:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Total:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Aircraft fate: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:southern Belize (   Belize)
Phase: Standing (STD)
Nature:Illegal Flight
Departure airport:?
Destination airport:?
Narrative:
A burnt Gulfstream jet was found by law enforcement officers on a clandestine airstrip in southern Belize. It had been used for transporting drugs. In the night of 10 December 2020 all together four drugs planes were detected.
Another crash landed on the Guatemalan side of the border.

The aircraft carried the exact same colour scheme of N370JL (msn 401). This aircraft was auctioned at an execution sale in December 2019.

Classification:
Damaged on the ground

Sources:
» solyucatan.com
» channel5belize.com
» reddit.com
» sipse.com
» Pre-sale photos of N370JL


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