ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 319311
| Date: | Friday 25 October 2019 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Rockwell Sabreliner 65 |
| Owner/operator: | private |
| Registration: | N465BC |
| MSN: | 465-53 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1981 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 11920 hours |
| Cycles: | 12043 flights |
| Engine model: | Garrett TFE731-3R-1D |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Sipacate, Escuintla -
 Guatemala
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Illegal Flight |
| Departure airport: | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Little or no information is available |
A Rockwell Sabreliner 65 was damaged after landing at an illegal airstrip in Guatemala. A photo of the scene shows the aircraft in the grass next to the makeshift airstrip with a collapsed nose landing gear. The aircraft was carrying 1,522 kilos of cocaine and weapons on board.
N465BC had been sold to Mexico on 25 October 2019. It was last seen active on a domestic flight in Mexico on October 24.
Sources:
washingtonpost.com
elperiodico.com.gt
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