Here are a few pics of my recent commision to southern Mexico.
The story on this picture is were informed somebody had just called the airport and said a plane
was sitting abandoned on the highway since early morning, we were asked to fly
down there and look for it thinking it was an accident or something,
when we got there we found this Cessna that had just flown more than
1200 NM from COLOMBIA! It had a temporary fuel system inside to extend
the range, it was fully equipped, beautifully maintained (had been
stolen from Nicaragua about a week before), and it had a awsome
handheld GPS with color moving map taped to the dashboard, (which was
later sent to our hotel as a present for helping locating the plane
:/, just the GPS OK!), a very nice set of NVG's and . . . . . . . . and they had left a
bag of pure cocaine inside, it is estimated that that the load was more than 300 kilograms of the stuff, which by now probably being consumed by some stockbroker in New York
They landed at dawn while it was still dark using the NVG's, the plane
was later abandoned, none of the US radar planes, detected them in the
Carribean on their way down here.
Our temporary pad had a great view of the river, and the alligators in it.
This Puma was here to take reporters around to cover the inaguration
of a bridge.
This is one of my favorite canyons to fly thru, its about 30 NM, and
its walls are 1,000 feet high average, lots of Mayan ruins in the
edges.
No wires here (better not be any)
The new bridge, had to say chase some of the people happy to use it for the
first time to say hello, you can barely see people waving! Tempting to fly underneath it you know . . . .
