…SVG Prime Minister Wades in.
…NATIONAL SECURITY, NACOBOD, GAF, GCAA &AFGO Play Dumb as Pilots, Owners Flee.
The suspected illicit activities of the mystery aircraft currently under the custody of the Ghana Air force is becoming increasingly apparent with the political authorities of Saint Vincent De Granadine (SVG) revealing that the transponders of one of the Planes which went missing after taking off from Cannuoan Airfield, may have been deliberately deactivated to conceal traveling information.
The two aircraft with tail numbers N52700 and N337LR, are suspected to have been used to shuttle narcotic drugs, and that highly-placed individuals in Ghana may be linked to it.
Gulfstream GLF3 with registration number N337LR disappeared from radar, 7 minutes after it took off from the Caribbean Island.
According to a report by the Caribbean International Weekly, the Prime Minister of SVG, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, made a disclosure as far back as late December 2023 that the plane, which went missing after departing from the Southern Grenadines on Friday 22nd December, may have deliberately turned off its transponder.
Sources within Narcotic Control Commission (NACOC), the Ghanaian agency responsible for investigating Narcotic related crimes and the Drug Enforcement agency of the United State (DEA) reveal that preliminary sweeps made after the planes were surreptitiously landed at Kotoka showed traces of substances suspected to be cocaine.
The SVG Prime Minister was reported to be relaying information obtained from regional and international agencies within the South American enclaves.
Dr Gonsalves reportedly said local authorities have been in contact with two Latin American countries on the matter.
The disconnection of the Transponder was to remove any evidence of the aircraft’s route or its activities from being traced or read by any signal centre of airspaces across the world
A transponder is an avionic device that sends data and provide responses to requests from Air Traffic Control (ATC) radar stations. However, in contrast to larger aircraft, the N337LR lacks ACARS, resulting in the loss of its position to air traffic control (ATC) when its transponder is not turned on.
ACARS, also known as the Aircraft Communications, Addressing, and Reporting System, facilitates the exchange of automated messages between the aircraft and other entities such as the airline company and manufacturer.
Incidentally, Ghana’s National Security, in spite of all the available information, offered a cosy reception to the rogue aircraft that landed at the Kotoka International Airport. The pilots and crew were left to flee even though it was abundantly clear to the National Security that international drug investigations were already in high gear on those planes.
As details about the arrival of the plane with N337LR in Ghana emerge, it is becoming clearer that the vanishing from Saint Vincent De Grenadines; the switching off of Transponders and the landing at Kotoka may all be connected to a cartel operation between South America and Ghana, which has long been reputed as a major drug transit hub.
It is not clear whether the National Security and it’s ally NACOC, the Military Intelligence and the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority were officially furnished with information about the missing plane prior to it’s arrival in Ghana. It is on record however, that the two aircraft landed in Ghana without permit.
Sources have hinted that the planes were earlier denied landing in Sierra Leone where they had allegedly attempted to land and scramble.
N337LR Depart St Vincent
An SVG news portal, ‘The ‘St Vincent Times’, reported that the aircraft departed from Canouan on Friday 22nd December 2023 at 2:27 p.m. for a sightseeing expedition. However, just 7 minutes into the flight, it disappeared from radar”.
Reliable sources according to the newspaper disclosed that the N337LR aircraft was found to have a flight crew consisting of two individuals and one passenger. Prior information indicated the presence of three passengers and one pilot.
Although the St Vincent Times was unable to disclose specific identities of the occupants of the plane, it confirmed that at least two individuals aboard were of Mexican nationality.
St Vincent Times had learnt that the authorities were aware of the identity of the flight crew and the sole passenger, contrary to previous claims. And background checks were being conducted with external agencies.
According to the source, preliminary investigation suggested that N337LR did not vanish by chance.
Radio Silence
The last known contact with the aircraft was established at precisely 2:33 pm. Subsequently, all communication with the plane abruptly ceased, leaving authorities puzzled and residents of the Southern Grenadines anxious for answers.
Landing Without Permit
The Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) surreptitiously cleared the aircraft for landing at Kotoka without permits, Whatsup News has gathered.
The National Investigation Bureau (NIB) reportedly apprehended two Airforce liaison officers, an officer from AFGO, three directors of GCAA, including the Director General, Charles Okraku and some other individuals who were later released, allegedly on the instruction of a powerful monarch in Ghana -The nature of this intervention remains undisclosed at present.
The development reveals potential connivance as trails from the source of N337LR and the circumstances surrounding its flight details; its landing in Ghana and the shoddy investigations by the National Security builds up to a fine Hollywood mafia plot.
Reports are that the aircraft in question, a two-engine, fixed-wing Gulfstream with a seating capacity for 21 passengers, embarked on a sightseeing excursion from the Southern Grenadines.