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Default Reefs, Wrecks, Caves and Mermaids

On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:54:35 GMT, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

Great images - wsa that a aircraft of some sort? Patrol plane maybe?


Wrecked twin engine C-46 aircraft at Norman's Cay, crashed landed in
the water by drug smugglers in 1980.

http://aviation-safety.net/database/...?id=19801115-0

Norman's Cay was taken over by a big time drug smuggler named Carlos
Lehder sometime back in the 70s. He is alledged to have founded the
Colombian Medellin Cartel. They were running a trans-shipment
operation at Norman's and some of the planes didn't make it all the
way. :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Lehder

You can see the outline of the plane wreckage on Google Earth if you
zoom way in at Lat 24-35.667 by Lon 76-48.600