The military high command explained on its Twitter account that the aerial photograph near the Encontrados sector in Zulia state disabled the twin-engine Super King aircraft, white with a blue stripe and no visible registration.
He explained that the plane was flying at low altitude and, entering state territory, was detected by radar.
Hernández pointed out that Air Response Agents were ordered to take off to conduct a reconnaissance and containment mission south of Lake Maracaibo, where they found the device on an improvised and unauthorized clandestine airstrip.
He pointed out that once the procedures with the flight services were completed and it was determined that there was no license to operate in the area, they would have declared the twin-engine aircraft hostile for the total flight area under the provisions of Article 3 of the Control Law Defense of Outer Space. Air from Venezuela.
It was suspected that it was being used by groups generating violence related to cross-border crime of drug trafficking, transfer of irregular items and weapons, and they began to neutralize it, he said.
The Operational Strategic Commander announced that there had been 358 casualties with this aircraft since 2012 and assured that the FANB “will guarantee sovereignty and territorial integrity at all costs”.
Venezuela is a territory of peace, sovereign, free and independent. Independence or nothing!, remarked
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