Former Kuwait Airways Airbus A340 chained up in Africa. Possibly related to drugs smuggling
A former Kuwait Airways Airbus A340, now registered in Gambia register as C5-AST is chained up by the Guinea-Bissau authorities. After landing on October 29 at Osvaldo Vieira International Airport in the city of Bissau (Africa) the two Turkish pilots and the engineer fled the country.
The owner of the aircraft is not known.
The owner of the aircraft is not known. The former registration used when it flew for Kuwait Airways is 9K-AND. According this post at Pprune the operator of the aircraft was AID Aviation.
The aircraft hardly flew since it was handed over to the unknown owner at March 20, 2020
March 19, 2020 – Testflight from and to KWI (Kuwait City, Kuwait) a day before delivery…
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March 20, 2020 – The delivery flight from KWI (Kuwait City, Kuwait) to BNJ (Banjul, The Gambia)
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October 29, 2021 – The short mystery flight from BNJ (Banjul, The Gambia) to OXB (Bissau, Guinea-Bissau) using the Callsign C5AST.
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No other flights show up on the adsbexchange website between March 20, 2020 and October 29,2021 and after October 29, 2021
A website connects this aircraft to the smuggling of drugs:
The question that several Guinean analysts are asking is whether this Airbus A-340 held at the airport in Bissau is related to the drug trafficking case that the Judiciary Police has been investigating in recent days, a process in which six people, including civilians and military , were detained.
This new drug case in Guinea-Bissau would be related to an international trafficking network with ramifications from Bolivia, through Brazil and several West African countries until reaching Guinea-Bissau.
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