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The Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) detected an aircraft that illegally entered the country’s airspace and that was intercepted trying to evade Venezuelan fighter jets, which crashed this Sunday in the town of Tulum, in the Portuguese state.
This is what the strategic combatant commander reported in his X account FANBG/J Domingo Hernández Lárez, who detailed that it was a Piper PA-34-200T Séneca II aircraft, registration number PR-RP.
He explained that traces of a deceased crew member and the suspect had been found, such as a passport of Mexican nationality and a pilot’s license issued by the United States, as well as other materials linking the aircraft to drug trafficking.
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In his post, Hernández Lares explained that the Integrated Air and Space Defense Command (CODAI) and the radar of the Maiquetia Flight Information Region reported the illegal entry of a low-flying aircraft, which was a blatant violation of national sovereignty.
“In the exercise of our national sovereignty and in response to the supreme interests of security and integrated defense, interception, persuasion and suppression actions are carried out against any aircraft or object that violates the regulations of air circulation, declaring it a carrier in flight as a hostile target, since it does not identify itself, turning off the locator, transponder and hiding the identification plate, ordering interception and air interception,” he clarified.
After finding the aircraft, FANB implemented current procedures to persuade and order it to accompany the landing; however, the pilot ignored the order, tried to evade the fighter and performed low-altitude evasive maneuvers until he made an emergency landing in a field near Tulum, Portuguesa State, Portugal, crashing at coordinates 09°35′N 069° 05′W.
“Venezuela is a peaceful territory and we will not allow our space to be used for the purposes of the scourge of drug trafficking,” stressed the Congolese armed forces strategic operations commander.
Hernandez Lares noted that on May 10, two other aircraft were disabled in the same area, as was a secret runway used as an airport.
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