Shipment of cocaine worth about 430 thousand dollars brand were accidentally discovered in the plane of American Airlines. About it reports Fox News.
Working in city Tulsa of the state Miami to perform scheduled maintenance of the aircraft and found the drugs Packed in seven packages in the form of briquettes.
The technician to verify the system electronics noticed that part of the front landing gear, where the front wheels of the aircraft looked like new. He opened them and fell inside the packages. The clerk immediately called in the County Sheriff’s office.
“This plane actually flew in from Bogota Columbia and landed in Miami, where he was to undergo a computer test as part of routine maintenance. It is not known how the cocaine got inside the plane,” – said the representative of the office of the Sheriff of Tulsa Mike Moore.
The drugs were confiscated, and American Airlines began its own investigation.
According to TulsaWorld.com approximately the same quantity of cocaine was discovered on an American Airlines jet in Tulsa December 1, 2015.
Earlier it was reported that about 370 kilograms of cocaine was discovered by employees of the Coca-Cola factory, located near Marseille.