Rendition Aircraft - N987SA

N987SA

On September 24, 2007, Gulfstream II, N987SA, c/n 172, crashed in the Yucatan, Mexico, carrying 6 tons of cocaine. The business jet was registered to Donna Blue Aircraft Inc, and acquired with money of the trust of the company Powell Aircraft and was piloted by Omar Alfredo Jácome of the Valley the Piolo and Edic Muñoz Sanchez.

The Gulfstream with tail number N987SA has been involved in extraordinary rendition to Guantanamo Bay. Logs also show that the plane flew twice between Washington, D.C. and Guantanamo and once between Oxford, Connecticut and Guantanamo. The American flights would have been CIA and Pentagon interrogators being ferried to interrogations at Guantanamo. At the time of the Guantanamo flights, the plane was managed by Air Rutter International, a California-based air charter service. It was then sold on August 30 to Donna Blue Aircraft, owned by two Brazilians and sold on to two Americans, Clyde O'Connor and Greg Smith on September 16. references below, and was later acquired with money from the trust company Powell Aircraft Title in the United States by the drug trafficker Pedro Antonio Bermúdez Suaza aka "the architect". It departed Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport on September 18 for Cancun, Mexico, then onto Colombia to pick up the drugs from the FARC before returning to Mexico. When they were within minutes of landing in Cancun following the bribes routine, "The Architect" called the pilots and Edic Munoz answered. Pressed, Bermudez demanded Suaza not land in Cancun and to try the Manzanillo airport but there was an unexpected change and the authorities were already waiting to arrest them there. They were forced to crash land near the town on Tixkobob after being chased. "The aircraft had been orbiting over the town for almost two hours prior to the crash, although Mexican military aircraft had already been tracking it since it first entered Mexican air space. Soldiers recovered 132 bags containing 6.3 tons of cocaine from the aircraft wreckage. The injured pilot,Omar Alfredo Jácome del Valle aka "el Piolo" and the co-pilot Edic Munoz Sanchez., were found and arrested the next day."

One week later the commander of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC) in Cancun was found shot dead after being kidnapped from a soccer match, he had refused in the Cancun airport, the landing of the Grumman aircraft loaded with 6.3 tons of cocaine, which then collapsed in Tixcocob, Yucatán in September 2007.