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This is what I heard earlier and is being reported on the News here right now.

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Nacion.com is reporting this as of 2:10 PM today, if its the same incident.... english is below


Helicóptero desaparece en Cerro Chirripó
Carlos Arguedas C. | 02:10 PM | carguedasc@nacion.com

San José (Redacción). El helicóptero matrícula TI-BBT con dos ocupantes desapareció hoy en la mañana mientras realizaba un vuelo entre el aeropuerto Tobías Bolaños y el cantón de Turrialba.

Alvaro Vargas, jefe de Operaciones Aeronaúticas de Aviación Civil, informó que la aeronave partió en la mañana con dos personas para tomar fotografías en el sector de Turrialba. Recogían a otra persona en el sector y regresaban a San José.

No obstante, a las 11:45 a. m. se perdió todo tipo de comunicación con el aparato y casi de manera inmediata se activó una alarma de un accidente aéreo.

Hasta el momento no hay certeza del lugar exacto donde se encuentra el aparato pero inicialmente se informó que era en el Cerro Chirripó, por lo cual salió un a patrulla a la 1:30 p. m. desde la Cruz Roja de La Suiza de Turrialba.

Asimismo, otra patrulla se dirige hacia el sector de Villa Mills en el Cerro de La Muerte.

Aviación Civil informó que la aeronave era piloteada por Edgar Arguedas y que lo acompañaba el fotógrafo German Trejos.




San Jose (Editor). The TI-enrollment BBT helicopter with two occupants disappeared this morning while on a flight from Tobias Bolanos Airport and the Canton of Turrialba.

Alvaro Vargas, head of Civil Aviation for aviation operations, reported that the aircraft departed in the morning with two people to take photographs in the area of Turrialba. They picked someone else in the industry and returned to San Jose.

However, at 11:45 a. m. lost all communication with the device, and almost immediately an alarm is activated an air crash.

So far there is no certainty the exact location where the device but it was initially reported in the Cerro Chirripó, so went to a patrol at 1:30 p. m. from the Red Cross in Switzerland Turrialba.

Also, another patrol was heading towards the area of Villa Mills on the Cerro de La Muerte.

Civil Aviation Authority reported that the aircraft was piloted by Edgar Arguedas and accompanying German photographer Trejos.

scary thought .. any updates on who was in the helicopter?

thanks for the translation

dd

http://www.nacion.com/ln_ee/2009/mayo/0 ... 51902.html
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A helicopter with two occupants disappeared yesterday when it realised a flight between the city of Quepos and the corner of Turrialba. Alvaro Vargas, head of Aeronautical Operations of Civil Aviation, said that the apparatus left to the 6:10 a.m. of the Airport Tobías Bolaños - in Turkey hens, San Jose in the direction of Quepos. He took like occupants to Édgar pilot Gerald Arguedas Alfaro, of 36 years, and to the photographer Germa'n Trejos. The intention of the flight was that Trejos carried out a photographic work. According to the flight plan that gave the pilot, the route included to go to Turrialba to gather a woman. It did not need in which site of Turrialba, Vargas said. The airship, matriculation TI-BBT, belong to the company Grecem MRJ and it uses the Hotel White House, located in Escazú, to transport his guests, confirmed Civil Aviation. It alerts. The disappearance of the airship was known the 11:10 a.m. when several small planes reported that they were receiving a signal of plane crash, which emits a transmitter known like ELT and that all the airplanes and helicopters take. After the first investigations, Civil Aviation determined that the unique apparatus that did not appear and that was in the zone was helicopter TI-BBT. The ELT signal is the best method to locate to airships victims. It activates when it receives a blow of 3.7 gravities, that approximately means a shock at a speed of about 30 kilometers per hour, according to explained investigators of plane crashes previously. The ELT emits a radio signal that attracts in the frequency of 121,5 MHZ. As much Civil Aviation as Guillermo Stream, of the Costa Rican Red Cross, said that the signal is located to 30 miles (48 kilometers) to south-east of the airport the Juan Santamaría, in Alajuela. That point would be in the hill of the Death, in the mountain range of Talamanca. Guillermo Stream needed that from yesterday in afternoon a command post in the sector of the Georgina settled, in the highway that communicates San jOse with San Isidro of the General. He added that from that place esteem that the ELT would be to about seven kilometers of distance in a very mountainous zone. “The idea is to move by earth three patrols composed by four men each”, explained the head of Operations of the Red Cross. Nevertheless, the work search complicó yesterday because in the zone it reigned, from very early, bad weather. Even, airships of the Ministry of Public Security realised sobreflights by the sector, but the pilots noticed that the low fog prevented them to have a good visibility. One hopes that today in the morning the time allows I fly over of helicopters and power to locate the site accurately where the ELT signal is emitted. As far as Édgar Arguedas, one said that he is a pilot of great experience, that had worked in the Ministry of Security.

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Wow, I don't start many thread topics. And this one proves me why. Very little interest. This is all over the local news all day here. . 350 kilos of powder found in the wreckage.

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Read todays www.amcostarica.com 345 Kilos of coke onboard. That's over 800 pounds. As I understand it from a heliocopter pilot, this type of aircraft can't carry much more than that amount and there were two adults also.

My bad--double post. Corrected one below.

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Brothers Icant... and VB--Good catch, you guys. This shows how extensively the rot has set in, in CR. Is this helo service a part of the White House or merely a contractor that the owners can claim is arms length from them (what's that Nixon-era phrase, "plausible deniability"?). In any case a major embarrassment to the LE establishment here, all the way to the top. It's one thing to have a bunch of heroin disappear from the NYPD evidence locker ("The French Connection" case); it's quite another to have this much stuff so poorly guarded that this flimsy ruse the bad guys used let them abscond with the goods. And if that helo hadn't crashed, would anybody have ever heard about the original theft? HA!

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VB wrote:


No sweat. I heard today that they found 320 kilos onboard. In a few days it will be down to a few grams and a coke spoon.

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I think it's time the people of Costa Rica said 'ENOUGH ALREADY!' Time to organize a parade!

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According to the latest news reports the White House sold the helo about a month and a half ago. However the GM of the White House is supposedly listed as an officer of the Mexican corporation that purchased it.

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Pac,
According to that article in today's AMCostaRica which VB linked to, the amount on board was "at least 347 kilos of cocaine" but also concluded "The exact amount of cocaine is unclear." I'm sure ICSA and VB were just rounding. As for the smaller 320 kilo amount, maybe you're confusing the amount that was thought to be onboard with the amount that was said to have been stolen from authorities down in Golfito. Again, according to that article: "There is uncertainty if the cocaine found in the wreck of the helicopter is related to the 320 kilos of cocaine taken by robbers from the prosecutor's officers in Golfito last month." The amounts described are close but then where did the extra cocaine come from that was on the Helo. These 2 incidents may have nothing at all to do with each other and, like JB said, if this crash hadn't happened we would not even have known about it. Whether it is the same batch or not, JB is right, these are probably just the tip of the iceberg and there are probably MANY such lots moving around in CR that don't get stolen or involved in a crash. And whether the amount on the plane was 350, 347, 345 or "only" 320, we're still talking about a LOT of cocaine.

BTW, ICSA, probably the reason why there was very little interest in this story when you started the thread on Friday is because you left out (or didn't know at the time) the most interesting part. In the less than 1 day since you added the part about the "350 kilos of powder found in the wreckage." there have been 4 times as many replies as there were in the first 3 days.

Pro, I was joking (note the string of smilies).

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There's an interesting article in today's Inside Costa Rica, regarding this exact helicopter, and it includes a nice pic also!

http://insidecostarica.com/dailynews/20 ... /nac05.htm

"XXX Model" Relates Her Story On The Downed Helicopter

The helicopter that went down in the Cerro de la Muerte on Friday with 350 kilograms of cocaine on board was the was the same used in the Costa Rican porno flick "NOS SILBABAN LAS NALGAS" that featured a dozen or so Costa Rican "models", including Michelle López and Kendry Medina.

One local newspaper Wednesday morning headlined, "Heli-Coca" used in the "Heli-Porno" and published an interview with the beautiful Medina, whose response to if she remembers the helicopter, said "Diay, mae, it is the same use in the porno flick". The beautiful Medina told her interviewer that they tried to have sex, as part of the filming, in the helicopter it wasn't possible, because they were to afraid.

The model said that they made several attempts, including an attempt of an orgy while flying high in the sky, but the movements were too rough and in reality all on board were afraid of the movements, afraid that a door could open at any time and well, you know, fall out. Medina says she recalls that the pilot was very serious and was scared at seeing all those people naked in his airship. The model said they were all picked up at the White House hotel in Escazu, taken up in the air for the shooting and then brought back down.

Asked if drugs were on board, she replied in the affirmative, but it was only for analgesic purposes, to calm down the nerves and the pain. Medina told the interviewer that the effects of the drugs also took a toll on the male star, whose member fell asleep during the scene.

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