Sao Paulo, Brazil— Venezuela's government announced on Friday that its armed forces said they intercepted an unidentified “hostile” aircraft flying over the country's territory. intercept It is said Happened on Tuesday.
The country's air defense system spotted a small plane with no apparent registration and forced it to land, Telegram reported information Posted by General Domingo Hernández, in charge of the National Bolivarian Armed Forces (FANB), and forwarded by Foreign Affairs Minister Yván Gil Pinto. The advisory did not specify who was on board or where the aircraft originated.
latin america report Requests to the Venezuelan Ministry of Defense were made to confirm the origin of the aircraft and to confirm the date of the incident, but a response had not been received by press time. The U.S. military has also been contacted but has not yet responded.
The general's statement said the military spotted the small plane thanks to “an early warning radar system belonging to the National Integrated Aerospace Forces.” It tracked planes entering the country from eastern Bolivar state but did not send out transponder codes.
“Legal control and information verification through the Maiketiya FIR (Fixed Reference Infrastructure) confirmed that the aircraft did not provide a flight plan. Therefore, it was declared illegal and the immediate interception of the aircraft was ordered,” the statement read.
The plane was then ordered to make an emergency landing around the city of Pedro Camejo in the western state of Apure, which borders Colombia.
“Venezuela is a land of peace, freedom, democracy, law and justice, and we fight head-on every day against drug trafficking. We do not produce, process or consume drugs, and we certainly do not become a platform for transnational narco-terrorism,” Gen. Domingo Hernandez wrote, adding that 419 aircraft had demobilized in the country's airspace since 2013.
Major international airlines began canceling flights less than a week after U.S. President Donald Trump said the skies over Venezuela should be closed amid growing military pressure from Washington on Nicolás Maduro's regime.
Learn more via Al Jazeera: Last foreign airlines halt flights to Venezuela after Trump imposes airspace ban
Yesterday, the U.S. Southern Command Announce Another deadly boat attack in the Caribbean has killed four “male narco-terrorists” who were allegedly carrying drugs.
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Image: President Maduro and the Venezuelan Armed Forces (FANB)
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