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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | September 2007 
Plane Crash in Mexico Investigated
 Jay Root & Kevin G. Hall - Star-Telegram
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Mexico City - U.S. authorities are assisting the Mexican government in investigating an American business jet that crashed in Cancun this week with four tons of cocaine on board, officials said Thursday.
One of the registered owners of the plane, Joao Luiz Malago, said in a telephone interview from Brazil that his Florida-based company sold the aircraft for $2 million on Sept. 16 to a Lakeland, Fla., man and his partner, who Malago believed was from Miami.
Malago said he feared that the man was dead because he hasn't answered the phone.
Officials at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico had no information on any U.S. citizens being killed or arrested in connection with the aircraft, a 1975 model Gulfstream II.
Some news reports have linked the plane to the transport of terrorism suspects to the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but those reports cite logs that indicate only that the plane flew twice between Washington, D.C., and Guantanamo and once between Oxford, Conn., and Guantanamo. No suspects are known to have been transferred to Guantanamo directly from the U.S.
The Mexican attorney general's office said the plane crashed Monday in a remote jungle area on the Yucatan Peninsula. Two men were arrested and jailed on drug trafficking charges, officials said.
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