The G / J Domingo Hernández Lárez highlighted that the FAN shot down the illegal aircraft number 13 so far in 2023
The head of the Operational Strategic Command of the National Armed Forces (Ceofan), G/J Domingo Hernandez Larezreported this Monday, April 10, an alleged “hostile aircraft” was shot down in the Pedro Camejo municipality of Apure state, in an area near the border with Colombia.
Hernández Lárez indicated that the downed aircraft, number 13 so far in 2023 according to his own count, was not identified or had a specific flight plan, for which reason it was declared a “target of interest” for Aviation since it violated “the provisions on air traffic”.
In the Pedro Camejo de Apure municipality, it was detected by the radars of the #SDT a hostile aircraft with a disconnected transponder, without visible identification or flight plan, being declared a target of interest and disabled for violating national sovereignty. It is number 13 of 2023. pic.twitter.com/btzEDkFJWm
—G.J. Domingo Hernandez Larez (@dhernandezlarez) April 10, 2023
According to the Control Law for the Comprehensive Defense of the Airspace of the #RBVin exercise of sovereignty and in attention to security and defense interests, #FANB disables hostile aircraft in the state of Apure for infringing the provisions on air traffic. pic.twitter.com/4gtyQilw5U
—G.J. Domingo Hernandez Larez (@dhernandezlarez) April 10, 2023
Despite the information, the Ceofan chief did not offer details regarding the downed aircraft.
the NGO Citizen Control He warned that the operations to disable and demolish drug trafficking aircraft that the National Armed Forces (FAN) has carried out are opaque. For the NGO, the lack of an official record exacerbates doubts about the procedures.
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Citizen Control estimated that in 90% of the operations reported by the head of the Strategic Operational Command of the National Armed Forces (Ceofan), Domingo Hernández Lárez, in the first quarter of 2023, the acronyms of the aircraft (registration) and 100% did not detail the fate of the crews and the alleged illegal cargo.
In more than three months, G/J Domingo Hernández Lárez has reported some 13 disabled aircraft. According to the chief of Ceofan, the demolition procedures were undertaken after the air vehicles entered the Venezuelan skies and did not obey the call to stop.
During the last months, the Government of Nicolás Maduro ordered numerous security operations in the south of the country, where gold mines operate. The action left several camps of illegal minery destroyed and an unknown number of detainees.
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