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Dominican Republic security forces seized around $11 million worth of cocaine after the pilot of a Cessna jet carrying the drugs was unable to land safely and crashed.
The narco jet was picked up on a radar after it illegally entered the island's airspace Wednesday night.
It was chased down by an armed fighter jet before the cocaine-loaded plane crashed around 11pm in Oviedo, a city in the southwest province of Perdenales.
A member of the Dominican Republic's National Drug Control Directorate removes plastic-wrapped packages of cocaine from the compartment area of a Cessna jet that crashed Wednesday in the southwestern province of Perdenales. A total of 288.87 kilos of cocaine, worth around $11million, were seized. However, no arrests were made
A total of 288.87 kilos of cocaine that were split into 277 plastic-wrapped packages were found inside a Cessna jet that crashed in Perdenales, Dominican Republic, on Wednesday night
Authorities inspect the wreckage of a Cessna jet that crashed with about $11 million worth of cocaine Wednesday night in the Dominican Republic
Authorities on the ground recovered a total of 288.87 kilos of cocaine divided into 277 plastic-wrapped
