Cocaine smuggling plane crashes💥

We finally have more answers to the mysterious crash of an airplane loaded with cocaine in the jungle of a South Pacific island near Australia, where the drugs were heading. Let me tell you about it. The Mob Reporter here with news of one of the world’s most storied stashes of cocaine; but, really, with the wild tale of the many men who bought them, stashed them, floated them, flew them, hid them, died for them, lost them, found them, and eventually of those who destroyed them. This half ton stash spent the past four lonely years in a police vault before seeing sunshine again — fleetingly — when they were carted away for execution in December 2024. They had a hard, rollercoaster life — a choppy 9,000-miles aboard a small yacht from South America to Papua New Guinea, before being hauled to a makeshift airfield for a nail-biting ghost flight aboard a broken plane flown by a broken pilot, to Australia, where mobsters were anxiously waiting for them — only for the plane to crash in the jungle. In this video I tell you of their journey, how it was plotted and how it unravelled with two spectacular events: The plane crashing in the jungle when trying to take off, weighed down by the heavy bags, the other that their plot was doomed even if it hadn’t. Australian police were all over the plot and the alleged plotters from the start, and were secretly waiting to arrest them all when the plane touched back down. The man crashing the plane was David John Cutmore, an unemployed pilot and flight instructor in Australia who had experience with smuggling after flights carrying exotic rare birds into New Zealand. He compared himself to Tom Cruise in Top Gun and in American Made, a movie about a pilot for Pablo Escobar. The man who brought it to PNG was Carlos D’Attanasio, a yachtsman from Italy who sailed from Panama with the bags stuffed in his sailboat. Like Walter White, the fictional protagonist in Breaking Bad, he had cancer. Three locals were hired to help build a clandestine landing strip for the plane, cutting a runway out of jungle brush. The alleged plotters in Australia are still on trial. For them the accusations remain allegations only: Salvatore Formica, known as Sam. He has alleged family ties to the ‘Ndrangheta, the Mafia formed in Italy’s region of Calabria; Aiden Khoder, a bar owner in Australia in his 30s who has previous drug-related convictions; Pierino Forni, known as Peter, a financial advisor and part-time teacher in his 60s; and George Machem, 40, a tradesman specializing in glass work. Please tap the Thanks button to leave me a tip and give this video a like, and leave a comment. That helps juice the algorithm, which helps me a lot. And please make sure you’re subscribed to The Mob Reporter with notifications set to “all”. CREDITS: Music is: “That’s What It Takes (Instrumental)” by NEFFEX // “The Heist” by The Whole Other // “Tropic” by Public Memory // “Devious Little Smile” by Godmode; Maps are from Google Maps and satellite animation was created using Google Earth Studio; Video of pilot, the arrested locals and some crash scenes are from the excellent coverage of events in Papua New Guinea by TVWAN:    / @tvwanonline;   Scene of the lovely Royal Papua Yacht Club nd of the hotel are from the firms’ public promotional social media pages; The video of the interior of the vintage Cessna 402 is from the 2010 training video by Luke Towan:    • Cessna 402 start   and the beautiful scenes of a Cessna 402 airborne from SKBenergy    • Nevis Spotting !!! Charter Flight Caribbea...   used to illustrate the look of this particular aircraft flying in an island setting; Motorboat video is from Videvo; Galah birds video by Pat Whelen, US money by Olia Danilevich, sound waves by Utopia36 Audio, PNG coast video by Toktok No Maski Productions, all from Pexels; Top Gun logo is from the promotional poster for the 1986 Tom Cruise movie of the same name distributed by Paramount Pictures; the promotional poster for American Made, starring Tom Cruise, is for the movie of the same name released in 2017 by Universal Pictures; the image of Walter White, a character portrayed by Bryan Cranston is from promotional material for Breaking Bad (AMC), used to illustrate life imitating art in this case. ~ The Mob Reporter is a professional journalist bringing you real-life mob, police and true crime news, investigative journalism and educational videos. ~ PLEASE SUBSCRIBE: http://www.youtube.com/user/themobrep... ~ Please subscribe to my other channels: • Crime Watch:    / crimewatchworld   • Crime in Italy:    / crimeinitaly   ~ To read my written journalism: https://nationalpost.com/author/ahump... Please like, share, comment and subscribe. Thanks for watching! ~-~~-~~~-~~-~ Please watch: "Genius jewel heist wrecked by sloppy mistakes":    • Genius jewel heist WRECKED by sloppy mista...   ~-~~-~~~-~~-~