This Wednesday (24), a Cessna P210 plane landed on a farm in the Center-West of Minas Gerais, but the pilot was not found, as journalists in the region report. The case took place in the city of Papagaios, 170 kilometers from the capital Belo Horizonte, where an aircraft landed on a dirt road in the rural area of the city.
People would have approached the plane shortly after landing and reported to authorities that they saw the pilot with a gallon trying to fuel the Cessna. However, upon noticing the presence of other people, he fled through the cornfield, leaving all the material behind. Inside the aircraft, nothing illegal was found.
The plane is a Cessna P210, a factory pressurized version of the C210 Centurion, one of the most robust and largest single-engine aircraft manufactured by the American company. It is distinguished from other models in the series by its 4 smaller, rounded windows, which are this way because they cannot be opened and cause less force on the structure, which is subjected to the pressure differential of the aircraft’s pressurization.
Common Centurions have 2 or 3 larger, rectangular side windows that open depending on the position and model. This detail is important, since the plane with the real registration PR-BOI is a C210L as shown in several photos and in the ANAC registry.
The plane that landed in the interior of Minas Gerais is a P210N, with a completely different paint job, different windows, license plate with a distinct and crude font, showing that the registration was cloned, a practice that has become increasingly common among drug traffickers, to try to unravel the origin, often illicit, of the aircraft involved in the crime.
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