Originally Posted by
Continuingappch
Not the airlines themselves, the Canadian government needs to stop flights from carrying their citizens to D.R., maybe ask USA to follow suit - it could be resolved in two days.
Very questionable "airline" with one airplane and management crew, long history of torture and human rights abuses and a criminal past flies into foreign nation with twenty five million dollars of drugs inside their aircraft, gets caught when a mechanic finds it, and is then lawfully detained.
You want the secret to flying into the Dominican Republic and not getting detained? Or just the secret of doing it with twenty five million dollars of cocaine secreted on board your aircraft?
Legitimate airlines don't hire people who are the centerpiece of the longest running domestic violence trial in state history, involving carving death threats to children into one's wife's limbs. This was not a legitimate airline, nor a legitimate operation, nor was it a matter of illegal, or even inappropriate detention. Even the RCMP noted that the Dominican Republic was well within their rights to take this action, and under Dominican law detention for up to 12 months without charges is legal, pending investigation. The crew is not in jail. This was not a case of contraband stowed in passenger bags, or even left in a baggage space. This was a matter of twenty five million in cocaine stowed in the electronics bay area, trafficked through a foreign country, by questionable persons in a very questionable operation. Read all about it.