set up...?
personally cannot imagine that a crew of such an aircraft would be part of such a scheme..
could imagine that that crew had been under severe stress...maybe an armed gang forced them to load up the stuff...
could imagine that the crew then decided to bugger off into the darkness and proceeded to LPA...probably having informed their company via Satcom about their distress, and naturally keeping quiet on ATC until well out of range of Venezuela, as we all know that this Chavez is one of the biggest drug gangsters in South America anyway..
could imagine, that that plane, as obviously having been operated before by another company, and the new operator actually consisted of ex members of the former operator / managemant company, that maybe the former operator of said bird with some connections had set them up..
looks like some low-life set up to me..
personally do not understand why any operator in his or her right mind even considers to go to any of those South American drug states..one must be pretty desperate to take on such a charter..
Last edited by falconer1; 19th Aug 2012 at 18:55.