Via Boing Boing: “Interesting story about the Gulfstream II jet filled with 3.7 tons of cocaine that crashed in the Yucatan a couple of weeks ago. According to the Austin American Statesman, this plane has previously flown to Guantanamo Bay, which has a highly restricted airspace. Mad Cow Morning News visited the owners of the plane, ‘Donna Blue Aircraft Inc’ of Coconut Beach FL., and discovered that it’s an “empty office suite with a blank sign out front.”"

Some news reports have linked the plane to the transport of terrorist suspects to the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, but those reports cite logs that indicate only that the plane flew twice between Washington and Guantánamo and once between Oxford, Conn., and Guantánamo.

No terrorist suspects are known to have been transferred to Guantánamo directly from the United States.

The jet, with the tail number N987SA, changed hands twice in recent weeks. But how it ended up in the hands of suspected drug traffickers remains a mystery.

The Mexican attorney general’s office said the blue and white Gulfstream II crashed Monday in a remote jungle area on the Yucatán Peninsula. Authorities seized 132 bags of cocaine weighing four tons.

- Daniel Hopsicker, Oct 08, 2007: Link.

USA Today: “Plane crash in Mexico involved Colombian cocaine”: Link.

Fort Worth Star Telegram: “Crashed plane traced to drug kingpin”: Link.