A French Air Force Rafale fighter jet has intercepted a tourist plane piloted by a Polish drug trafficker. The pilot threw the packages containing the “stuff” out of the cockpit when he saw the plane approaching. After making a hasty landing, he was intercepted by the police.
A tourist plane flew into the restricted area
The behavior of the pilot of a small tourist plane that took off from Freiburg, Germany on Saturday alarmed French authorities and was taken over by the military when a Rafale jet flew through a restricted area over the Fessenheim nuclear power plant. Haute-Rhine department, near the German-French border.
Poles “abandoned” packages with medicines.
As the fighter jet approached the plane, the panicked pilot dropped packages containing around 30kg of the drug, AFP reported.
Rafale’s pilot notified the gendarmerie, which collected packages containing “white powder” that are currently being analyzed by investigators in several communes. The Pole made an emergency landing at the airport in Llanas, in the Ardèche department in the south-east of France, and after exiting the cockpit he began to run – but he was quickly apprehended by the GIGN (National Gendermerie Intervention Group). .
Lots of money on board
45,000 rupees were in the plane and the pilot’s pocket in Euros. A military spokesman told AFP such operations were “extremely rare” and praised the cooperation between the air force and the gendarmerie.
MP
Image credit: Dassault Rafale. Photograph. Manufacturer’s products.
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