July 2, 2009 5:00 PM
- Text
Cocaine-Laden Plane Plunges into Ocean
(AP)
A small plane carrying 265 pounds of cocaine plunged into the ocean and killed one person, Dominican authorities said Wednesday.
Police are looking for others who might have survived Tuesday's crash off the country's southern coast, said Maj. Gilberto Delgado Valdez with the National Drug Control agency.
He said authorities on land and at sea were tracking the plane, whose pilot was expected to air drop the drugs but likely decided to set down on the water, possibly because the plane ran out of fuel.
It is the third reported plane accident tied to drug-trafficking in recent months.
In May, a burned plane was found in the country's eastern region, and another plane laden with cocaine crashed last year, killing its four occupants.
The Dominican Republic is among the top 20 producers or transit sites for illegal drugs, according to the U.S. State Department.
Police are looking for others who might have survived Tuesday's crash off the country's southern coast, said Maj. Gilberto Delgado Valdez with the National Drug Control agency.
He said authorities on land and at sea were tracking the plane, whose pilot was expected to air drop the drugs but likely decided to set down on the water, possibly because the plane ran out of fuel.
It is the third reported plane accident tied to drug-trafficking in recent months.
In May, a burned plane was found in the country's eastern region, and another plane laden with cocaine crashed last year, killing its four occupants.
The Dominican Republic is among the top 20 producers or transit sites for illegal drugs, according to the U.S. State Department.
Popular Now in World
- Iran allegedly cuts off Internet access
- Pakistani fishermen reel in 40-foot whale shark
- "Voluptuous" Ukrainian nurse abandons Qaddafi
- Iran: We can attack U.S. interests "anywhere"
- Booze and bikinis in a new Egypt
- Girl with Two Heads Born in Philippines
- Israel To U.S.: Don't Delay Iraq Attack
- Cockpit error sent 737 into Pacific nose dive
- 23 women convicted of child pornography in Sweden
- Stephen Hawking: Heaven is "a fairy story"
- GlobalPost: Qaddafi apparently sodomized
- 130 Doctors Without Borders staff go missing
- Greek Cruise Ship Sinks
Latest CBS News Headlines
on Facebook
on CBS News
- The nation's weather
- Filmmaker Douglas Trumbull receives honorary Oscar
- Houston's body taken to morgue; autopsy planned
- Obama to submit his budget to Congress on Monday
on Facebook
- Whitney Houston 1963-2012
- Adele sings a cappella for Anderson Cooper
- Remembering Whitney Houston 1963-2012
on CBS News
