How a US Narco-Jet Trying to Violate Venezuelan Air Space Ended Up
Venezuelan Integral Aerospace Defense Command (Codai) of the Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB) shot down a US flagged aircraft that illegally entered Venezuelan airspace through the state of Zulia, coming from Colombia.
This was reported by the Minister for Internal Relations, Justice and Peace, Néstor Reverol, through Twitter, a platform on which he published several photographs of the plane that ended up shot down in the “Machiques de Perijá” municipality.
Inutilizada aeronave del narcotráfico con matrícula norteamericana, que ingresó ilegalmente al espacio aéreo venezolano por el estado Zulia.#LaVerdadDeVenezuela #15Sep pic.twitter.com/qncyzKqMrc
— Néstor Reverol (@NestorLReverol) September 15, 2020
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“Disabled drug trafficking aircraft with US registration that illegally entered Venezuelan airspace through the state of Zulia. The FANB officials after detecting the illegal air unit with the radars of the Comprehensive Aerospace Defense Command (Codai), activated all the protocols established in the Control Law for the Comprehensive Defense of the Airspace, rendering it useless near a clandestine runway in the Machiques de Perijá municipality,” said Reverol.
Los funcionarios de la #Fanb tras detectar la unidad aérea ilegal con los radares del Comando de Defensa Aeroespacial Integral (#Codai), activaron todos los protocolos establecidos en la Ley de Control para la Defensa Integral del Espacio Aéreo pic.twitter.com/LSB8xraFCx
— Néstor Reverol (@NestorLReverol) September 15, 2020
The minister said that the Venezuelan State and its security forces remain “on permanent alert, monitoring our airspace to prevent it from being used for illicit drug trafficking from Colombia,” the largest producer of cocaine in the world.
Logrando la inutilización cerca de una pista clandestina, en el municipio Machiques de Perijá. pic.twitter.com/TUFUm1RpG6
— Néstor Reverol (@NestorLReverol) September 15, 2020
Featured image: Courtesy of @NestorLReverol
Translation: OT/JRE/EF