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| Date: | Sunday 14 September 2025 |
| Time: | c. 13:30 LT |
| Type: |  Airplane Factory Sling 4 |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | ZU-IXM |
| MSN: | 143 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Location: | Coruripe, Alagoas region, Brazil's remote north-east -
 Brazil
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Illegal Flight |
| Departure airport: | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
An Airplane Factory Sling 4 carrying 200kg of SpaceX-branded cocaine crashed into a sugarcane field in Brazil. The Australian pilot was flying over Coruripe, on the coast of the Alagoas region in Brazil's remote north-east, when his plane crashed around 1.30pm on Sunday.
He died at the scene and the aircraft was written off.
Sources:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15098541/Aussie-pilot-cocaine-brazil-plane-crash.html
https://www.2oceansvibe.com/2025/09/22/stellenbosch-pilot-crashes-plane-with-almost-r1-billion-worth-of-cocaine-on-board/
https://cdn.jetphotos.com/full/6/933562_1698122773.jpg (photo)
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 15-Sep-2025 06:04 | vasilf | Added |
| 15-Sep-2025 10:38 | vasilf | Updated [Location, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 25-Sep-2025 19:22 | RobertMB | Updated [Time, Source, Damage, Narrative, ] |
| 25-Sep-2025 19:22 | RobertMB | Updated [Source, ] |
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