Trouble at Sherburn!
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From: Brussels - Twin Comanche PA39 - KA C90B
I hope they split this fake country i'm living in very soon ...
It's amazing how lazy that French part of Belgium is, instead of working like normal people, all they do over there are criminal activities, good thing they were caught.
It's amazing how lazy that French part of Belgium is, instead of working like normal people, all they do over there are criminal activities, good thing they were caught.
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I can understand the desire to make money out of criminal activity, but I don't understand how somebody can be so stupid so as to
- make contact with a bunch of people wanting to ferry many kg of dope (who are bound to be under surveillance sooner or later)
- use a plane whose number is written on the side in huge letters and which can thus be traced both to the owner and the pilot at the time (and which is bound to be under surveillance sooner or later)
Surely a small boat is the way to do this?
- make contact with a bunch of people wanting to ferry many kg of dope (who are bound to be under surveillance sooner or later)
- use a plane whose number is written on the side in huge letters and which can thus be traced both to the owner and the pilot at the time (and which is bound to be under surveillance sooner or later)
Surely a small boat is the way to do this?
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From: North of South
For once we have to thank the lord for written exams . In my professional capacity I have dealt with many importers and suppliers of drugs over the years . The smarter ones avoid boats as they are too easily detected , believe it or not . Pilots are by their general nature intelligent and not risk takers and it takes a lot of money to convince one to fly drugs around for them . This is obviously not without its exceptions . The one thing that several of them have said to me is that they would have loved to have bought a helicopter and done it themselves however they are very loathed to take any form of exams especially ones associated with flying. Famously a certain big merseyside importer and perhaps britains biggest earning , once turned up at barton enquiring about that very thing , it was the exams that put him off too .
But theres always one idiot or perhaps two
But theres always one idiot or perhaps two
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From: UK
Virtually a carbon copy of something that happened at my own club last year, difference is that in that instance the goods had made it to this country but I think the other country was the same and the quantity very simmilar - you would think that people would learn.
P.S. it wasn't me
P.S. it wasn't me
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From: E Anglia
I seem to remember a few years ago, a drug runner ,after landing in a field darn sarf with his cargo, hopped off the leading edge of the wing and minced himself in the rotating prop.
No, pretty dim, I'd say , certainly no match for the exams
Cusco
No, pretty dim, I'd say , certainly no match for the exams
Cusco
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From: UK
And there was the lad who used his paradropping C180 (185?) to nip over to France, fill it full of ecstacy - and then get caught by the french police. When he was in the nick, he wrote to another para pilot mate and asked him to sit his ATPL exams on his behalf..... Says something about the intelligence of some of these people. Oh, and no his mate didn't take the exams - he'd passed them once already and wasn't about to go through that again pretending to be someone else!
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From: Oxford
Can't believe how complacent they apparently were - didn't they think someone might notice all those flight plans being filed from Sherburn to the same obscure Belgian airstrip? Couldn't they at least have varied the pickup point?
Agree that IF guilty they should be made an example of.
Tim
Agree that IF guilty they should be made an example of.
Tim