Venezuela's armed forces announced on Tuesday that they intercepted and disabled a foreign aircraft that entered the country's airspace without authorization, citing alleged narcotics-trafficking links and framing the operation as a defense of national sovereignty.
According to the announcement, the aircraft — identified as a Cessna 310 with tail number XBRED — took off from an unspecified location in the Caribbean, turned off its transponder, suppressed communications and landed on an unauthorized border strip in the state of Apure. Venezuelan officials did not say whether anyone on board was detained or killed.
