Five people who stole an aircraft from a hangar in the Argentine province of Chaco died this Wednesday when the device crashed and caught fire, in which a weapon, money in Guaraníes and a kepi from the Cerro Porteño Club were found.
Source: AFP
The Cessna 206 plane went down shortly after takeoff, 7 km from Villa Angela, the third city of Chaco, northeast of Argentina and bordering Paraguay.
“If it fell in the city it would be a tragedy”, Prosecutor Sergio Ríos, in charge of the investigation, warned the local press.
In the place they found a 9mm caliber pistol, money in Paraguayan currency and a Cerro Porteño capwhich makes investigators assume that the criminals could have that nationality.
“We have already communicated with the Civil Aviation Accident Investigation Board (JIAAC) and we have made a receipt of the scene, except for the extraction of the bodies,” the prosecutor clarified to Radio LT7 de Chaco.
The official warned that identification of the bodies will be difficult because the plane caught fire on the way down.
The crew “They are not from here and I cannot yet say why we are convinced that they are foreigners or foreigners, in any case it will be very difficult to identify each one because the bodies were completely burned,” added the prosecutor.
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Two field workers saw the plane lose altitude, fall to the ground and catch fire, so they notified the police, reported the Norte de Chaco newspaper.
“They explained to me that the plane has a locking system that is hidden, and when they took off they forgot to open that ‘tap’ and they ran out of gasoline, not everyone knows where that fuel passage is, ”said the prosecutor.
The Cessna 206 single-engine plane, with five seats, which was stolen from the hangar early Wednesday morning, belonged to a local agribusiness businessman who had recently bought it. The prosecutor estimated its cost at $1.55 million.
A satellite phone was also found in the device, which according to the prosecutor “It is an element that allows us to think of a certain organization”.
said the band “I had very important logistics”since they managed to circumvent a series of “highly sophisticated” alarms to steal the aircraft.
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Another similar robbery had occurred on December 25, 2022, in the middle of Christmas, when five people took an aircraft from a Resistencia flying club, the capital of Chaco, and then landed in Bolivia, the Chaco press recalled.
