Pablo Escobar Plane Wreck

Though it is often referred to as the staniel cay plane wreck the infamous staniel cay plane wreck which was discovered a day after its crash with illegal drugs packed inside sits in a shallow part of the sea about ten miles off the coast of norman s cay.

Pablo escobar plane wreck. This channel is fu. Cruise a pilot arrived in medellin last month flying the same 1960s era plane which was similar to the one seal would have flown for escobar s cartel the official said. All 107 people on board as well as 3 people on the ground were killed. It s an old dc3 twin engine transport plane from wwii era that crash landed in just 4 metres of water.

Avianca flight 203 was a colombian domestic passenger flight from el dorado international airport in bogotá to alfonso bonilla aragón international airport in cali colombia it was destroyed by a bomb over the municipality of soacha on november 27 1989. Norman s cay is relatively inaccessible nestled about as far away from anything significant as you can get. After our last drug running plane wreck we don t have high expectations. Jhon jairo velásquez vásquez aka popeye who was escobar s most trusted lieutenant has no regrets about bombing avianca flight 203 in 1989 that killed 107 people.

The bombing had been ordered by the medellín drug cartel. Just offshore however those who do manage to find a way to visit there will come across a sunken wwii era military transport plane that was once flipped to fuel pablo escobar s expanding cocaine trade to the usa. Pablo escobar s drug running. Looks like another beautiful day.

We show you norman s cay in the bahamas where the medellin cartel operated from in the 1980s and dive on pablo escobar s crashed airplane.