MEXICO CITY: Thieves stole a business jet from an airport in central Mexico, flew it to Venezuela, apparently loaded it with drugs and then crashed the plane in Guatemala, authorities said Thursday.
The attorney generals office in Guatemala said four people were killed when the BAE 125 jet crashed and burned there Thursday.
The dead could not be immediately identified because they were so badly burned, but drugs and weapons were found in the wreckage of the craft, which authorities also referred to as a Hawker 800.
The bizarre round-trip illicit flight began Tuesday in the city of Cuernavaca, just south of Mexico City. The plane had arrived there on Aug. 10 and was parked at a private hangar.
Mexicos Civil Aviation Agency said three people asked permission to fuel up the jet, purportedly in order to perform maintenance…