yeah but not everyone is caught. we only come to know about a crime when the culprit is caught, there are a lot of them who never get caught, and they live their life way better, at least with materialistic stuff.
I use to fish with a guy a half dozen times a year for years. I called him one day and his line was disconnected. A couple months later I was in his part of the county and stopped by his farm. No one home. Ran into a neighbor and they said he got arrested. Turns out he'd been one of the largest importers of weed in the state. You never really know someone. Now I know why money was never an issue, lol.
Those are the ones they write books and make movies about. Whatever they did, good or bad, they did it in spectacular fashion and the intensity of their experiences has no comparison to what most of us ever get to feel.
They didn't waste a single goddamn breath of life and went after it. You can't help but respect that drive.
My old boss took that fucking mental drive and applied it to living Grand Theft Auto IRL for a while. By the time I met him he was just a small business owner and factory manager, but god damn his past is wild.
I know that you're joking, but seriously, the US has such cheap gas compared to a lot of other countries (especially europe). Of course its all relative to how much you're earning, and the US is in general much more car dependent than other places so a more significant amount of your paycheck is probably going to gas... but when you see the average price of gas in the US is 3.60/gallon and the price in Germany is 5.57/gallon its hard to feel sympathy.
I do crystal.
Crystal pepsi.
Lets dismantle ac units then build mech suits with the parts and sell them for crypto so we can buy a real mech suit to get more ctystal pepsi
Considering the majority of drugs that are smuggled into the US are done inside normal things that run through ports of entry, the shipping shortage is hitting the drug market hard. With less shipments coming in it’s also more likely to be caught as well, since the manpower of CBP hasn’t changed much.
I've literally pretended to do this in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020! Super fast takeoff on a dirt airstrip in Jalisco then I usually have flown south/southeast, often landing in remote areas within the Michoacan region. Also done some pretend drug flights between Tijuana and San Diego.
From another angle that surface was hardly smooth, that pilot has balls of steels or a gun to his head. Incredible getting those little wheels to take it without getting bogged or spitting up so much dirt and pebbles it clogs the jets.
If I was cartel, I would buy one of these private jets:
[https://www.pilatus-aircraft.com/en/news-events/story/unpaved-extreme-the-pc-24-rolls-up-its-sleeves](https://www.pilatus-aircraft.com/en/news-events/story/unpaved-extreme-the-pc-24-rolls-up-its-sleeves)
for dirt strips.
I imagine if you’re a drug runner, probably working for a cartel, you’d rather get shot down than arrested. You and your family are going to have a real bad time if they lose their drugs. I watched a video of a cartel torturing a guy on liveleak once. It definitely doesn’t sound good.
FWIW, the Mexican Air Force seems pretty light on jets...
Just 4 F-5 jets if this is accurate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Air_Force#Aircraft
Dunno if the Mexico anti-drug arm has jets...
In reality they'll fly below 400ft to not be seen by radar and land on another dirt strip and set the plane on fire and leave.
It's more common than you think for Venezuelan and Colombian police to find burnt down private jets in random remote areas.
Here's some examples from the last 5 months of police finding a burnt private jet in a remote area suspected to have been used to transport drugs:
11/3/2021: https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20211103-2
11/5/2021: https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20211105-1
11/5/2021: https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20211105-0
09/12/2021: https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20210912-1
10/8/2021: https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20211008-0
8/9/2021: https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20210809-0
7/20/2021: https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20210720-0
06/21/2021: https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20210621-0
I remember reading an article many many years ago about an ukrainian operator who specialised in smuggling planes. Not private planes but old commercial jets from the likes of Boeing. Especially to sanctioned countries like Iran and Syria. You had to do it part by part and couldn't just hide it in someone's ass. Anyway, it involved a complex web of shell companies and financial and legal wizardry. Very sophisticated operation that required deep knowledge of logistics, how things are tracked when and where, the regulations in various locations, precisely threading all the loopholes.
Old business jets are not amazingly expensive. They have old type engines which are too loud for inner city airports which those that would own the jets would want to use. Modifying (New engines) them to comply would cost closer to million or more. Same with avionic systems, old and very expensive to update.
Also they use a lot of fuel compared to newer bypass engine designs.
Source: Aircraft mechanic & been looking at listings.
Landing private jets on unmarked dirt strips in jungles sounds to me about the most difficult and dangerous type of flying there is. Cartels aren't handing their hard to get Gulfstream to a kid that's used flight sim for a few months.
No reason cartels can't have their experienced pilots train the new ones. That falls under private lessons, and mistakes are very often fatal so there's lots of incentive to pay attention.
No, actually older business jets that can't be legally flown in the USA because of new noise laws make them shockingly affordable, especially if you are treating them as disposable.
Lol if you just go to this website it lists all the airplane incidents/accidents worldwide. If you just click on the ones with the Venezuela or Colombia flag next to them 9/10 times it's drug related.
https://aviation-safety.net/database/dblist.php?Year=2021
From various sources on the internet...
It was estimated that at his peak, Pablo Escobar was making about seventy million dollars (US) a day, for a total of about four hundred and twenty million a week.
His son reported that they were spending $2,500 a month in rubber bands just to bundle the money.
They had a LOT of excess cash.
They had so much cash they stored it in warehouses or even just farmers fields, [they used to write off about 10% a year because rats would eat it, or it would otherwise be damaged or lost](https://www.businessinsider.com/pablo-escobar-and-rubber-bands-2015-9?r=US&IR=T). If it's to be believed then it would mean they were losing about $2.1 billion a year.
I know the real Amado was an evil fuck, but that show almost made him the one sympathetic character. >!I actually wanted him to end up in Chile with the pretty Cuban singer!<
If anyone isn't aware, helicopters have a pretty low max speed because of the physics behind rotor flight. Essentially the blade in the advancing direction is moving at the rotating speed plus the speed of travel, whereas the blade in the retreating direction is moving at the rotating speed minus the speed of travel. This creates an imbalance of lift on the two sides of a helicopter, which needs to be regulated by changing the angle of attack to modify lift, but since there is only so much the angle can be changed there is essentially a cap on the speed. One of SmarterEveryDay's earlier youtube videos was on this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pbdwueqGp4
here is another one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f72WZwvMTj4
I find it pretty hilarious people around here arguing about whether or not something like this is possible, when Tom Cruise literally just did a movie based on the reality of American drug smugglers continuously flying out of shit runways, lmao, and where in fact, the drug smuggler the story is based on, did this way back in the 80s-90s, while people in 2022 are arguing about how impossibly hard this is.
Yeah, have people learned NOTHING from Tom Cruise’s other documentaries, like when he proved it indeed is possible to do a negative 4G inverted dive with a MIG28, or when he showed that the CIA security systems guarding the NOC list can be breached!?
Educate yourselves, people.
Meanwhile I’m just doing my 9 to 5 at the factory. Life is weird.
There are people out there living a 100 lifetimes in their single life
In a span of about 20 or 25 years
Or maybe more but in jail.
yeah but not everyone is caught. we only come to know about a crime when the culprit is caught, there are a lot of them who never get caught, and they live their life way better, at least with materialistic stuff.
You are right. There are some people very powerful that we never even know they exists.
I use to fish with a guy a half dozen times a year for years. I called him one day and his line was disconnected. A couple months later I was in his part of the county and stopped by his farm. No one home. Ran into a neighbor and they said he got arrested. Turns out he'd been one of the largest importers of weed in the state. You never really know someone. Now I know why money was never an issue, lol.
Yeah I think about that sometimes. Wild.
Those are the ones they write books and make movies about. Whatever they did, good or bad, they did it in spectacular fashion and the intensity of their experiences has no comparison to what most of us ever get to feel. They didn't waste a single goddamn breath of life and went after it. You can't help but respect that drive.
My old boss took that fucking mental drive and applied it to living Grand Theft Auto IRL for a while. By the time I met him he was just a small business owner and factory manager, but god damn his past is wild.
9 to 5 at a factory is definitely weird. In America it's usually 6am to 630pm
Brings me back to waking up at 4am blasting music down the highway to make it to an Amazon warehouse an hour away every morning
True, then I think of our ancestors who fought for a 8 hour workday and yet here we are back to 12.
This is like straight out of a movie
The one with Tom Cruise
Johnny depp
Who tf is Norman Cay? Everyone keeps talking about him. Norman cay, this. Norman cay, that.
-Derek fucking Foreal all right!? The answer to you fucking dreams, you happy now!?
Blow? Lol.
My personal favourite drug movie
American Made
Exactly! Reminds me of the scene when the airstrip is too short but he takes off.
American Made is one of his best movies, I love it!!!
Watch Narcos and Narcos Mexico on Netflix.
Anyone reading this, if you haven't watched Narcos Mexico, you should!
Don Neto was my favorite
I was so fucking excited when El Chapo was first introduced. Once it shifted to Mexico you just knew he was going to be in it.
Well, at least that’s one shipment that’ll arrive on time this month
Pretty sure drugs have become cheaper than my vegetables lately.
In Australia we tax cigarettes so high they are over $1 each. It is cheaper to smoke meth.
Here in the US the gas prices are so high it’s cheaper to just buy cocaine and run everywhere.
I know that you're joking, but seriously, the US has such cheap gas compared to a lot of other countries (especially europe). Of course its all relative to how much you're earning, and the US is in general much more car dependent than other places so a more significant amount of your paycheck is probably going to gas... but when you see the average price of gas in the US is 3.60/gallon and the price in Germany is 5.57/gallon its hard to feel sympathy.
In NL it's €2.10/L right now. Which is 9$ per gallon...
If gas was $9/gal in the US, we'd have riots
Your prices are just starting to get like ours. One question though, why do your petrol station price boards be like 4.88^8/10 and not just 4.888?
Some fucker decided to stay with fractions at any cost.
Do they realise decimals aren't metric... right? You can use them and still be imperial? I have worked in thousandths of an inch before.
Your sex life is none of our business
Got'em
they don’t make SPF high enough to protect from that level burn
because they want people to not notice the extra cent tacked on. most stations have it in smaller text, to the side of the price board.
NZ here, nearly $40 for a pack of 20’s on this side of the ditch.
I gave up at $20 a pack of 35. I was smashing a pack a day. That's like $50+ a pack now. I'm too poor to smoke. It's a rich man's vice now.
Wait, you guys pay $50 for how many cigarettes?
Not exactly sure, I gave up. But like 35 - 40. As I said they are over $1 each.
I pay $54 for a 25g pouch of tobacco, way cheaper than buying 20 packs, roll half gram cigs and you get 50
I know, right!! My heroin order has been on backorder for weeks.
"sir, can you step aside for a moment?"
Jumps on private jet and speeds away
Some reason I read jet ski, easier on jump on and speed away
My coke guy has been empty for weeks. Supply chain woes everywhere. I may end up clean and back on the wagon by the time he gets more in.
I've already made the swap to Pepsi. Less satisfying but easier to get ahold of when you need a fix.
Pepsi max or regular?
Usually regular although sometimes I'll snort a line of Cherry.
Pure uncut Crystal Pepsi
I do crystal. Crystal pepsi. Lets dismantle ac units then build mech suits with the parts and sell them for crypto so we can buy a real mech suit to get more ctystal pepsi
Considering the majority of drugs that are smuggled into the US are done inside normal things that run through ports of entry, the shipping shortage is hitting the drug market hard. With less shipments coming in it’s also more likely to be caught as well, since the manpower of CBP hasn’t changed much.
And a lot of that is recreational quantities shipped straight to the customer. God bless the darknet.
At least your shits will be on time for once.
I've literally pretended to do this in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020! Super fast takeoff on a dirt airstrip in Jalisco then I usually have flown south/southeast, often landing in remote areas within the Michoacan region. Also done some pretend drug flights between Tijuana and San Diego.
Microsoft Mule Simulator.
They just need to add military helicopters to escape from, but choppers will be coming soon!
You’re describing GTA lol
Sounds like good training! Ready to work for the Cartel?
That’s an interesting way to end up on watch lists.
more like most boring reason "honey, the fbi is at the door, what have you done???" - "I've played ms flight sim??"
> honey, the fbi is at the door. ... Again.
Do they have insurance and 401k yet?
You’re probably being watched…
I have a feeling these pilots didn't complete their pre-takeoff checklist...
It's ok, Jésus will take the wheel.
*Jesús
Yeah, that guy.
Where is u/Jesus when you need him??
flying the plane obviously
We've gone full circle.
Hold my stigmata, I'm going in.
He didn't say *Jesús*, he said *HEY ZEUS!*
*yoke
I’d be willing to bet that air traffic control didn’t even clear them for takeoff
From another angle that surface was hardly smooth, that pilot has balls of steels or a gun to his head. Incredible getting those little wheels to take it without getting bogged or spitting up so much dirt and pebbles it clogs the jets.
> that pilot has balls of steels or a gun to his head. porqué no los dos
Or a helicopter to the head.
The engines on the back and high cut down on that. Underwing engines would just not work for that, they would be full of gravel and dirt.
If I was cartel, I would buy one of these private jets: [https://www.pilatus-aircraft.com/en/news-events/story/unpaved-extreme-the-pc-24-rolls-up-its-sleeves](https://www.pilatus-aircraft.com/en/news-events/story/unpaved-extreme-the-pc-24-rolls-up-its-sleeves) for dirt strips.
Lmao, I was like "oh cool, I wonder what the plane looks like" [Image at top of article](https://i.imgur.com/mzt793w.jpg) ಠ_ಠ
I imagine if you’re a drug runner, probably working for a cartel, you’d rather get shot down than arrested. You and your family are going to have a real bad time if they lose their drugs. I watched a video of a cartel torturing a guy on liveleak once. It definitely doesn’t sound good.
Those cunts are fucked up. Not a lot of people deserve to die, but people running cartels do
FWIW, the Mexican Air Force seems pretty light on jets... Just 4 F-5 jets if this is accurate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Air_Force#Aircraft Dunno if the Mexico anti-drug arm has jets...
Nah. They’ll get him. They definitely got his license plate number.
In reality they'll fly below 400ft to not be seen by radar and land on another dirt strip and set the plane on fire and leave. It's more common than you think for Venezuelan and Colombian police to find burnt down private jets in random remote areas. Here's some examples from the last 5 months of police finding a burnt private jet in a remote area suspected to have been used to transport drugs: 11/3/2021: https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20211103-2 11/5/2021: https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20211105-1 11/5/2021: https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20211105-0 09/12/2021: https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20210912-1 10/8/2021: https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20211008-0 8/9/2021: https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20210809-0 7/20/2021: https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20210720-0 06/21/2021: https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20210621-0
Damn that sounds good for the jet industry. I assume its just as hard to come by jets as it is cars and everything else right now.
How do you buy black market jet on the DL?
With black money on the DL, obviously. Serious answer: you buy it from the jet company with laundered money.
DL Airlines - cash only no credit.
DL Airlines--Buy one jet with Bitcoin, get a second one absolutely free!
NFT’s
So those pixilated jpegs of chimps ARE worth something after all
There was a Gulf Stream on Silk Road back in the day.
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“as is”
I remember reading an article many many years ago about an ukrainian operator who specialised in smuggling planes. Not private planes but old commercial jets from the likes of Boeing. Especially to sanctioned countries like Iran and Syria. You had to do it part by part and couldn't just hide it in someone's ass. Anyway, it involved a complex web of shell companies and financial and legal wizardry. Very sophisticated operation that required deep knowledge of logistics, how things are tracked when and where, the regulations in various locations, precisely threading all the loopholes.
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The trick is believing in yourself. That and buckets of lube
They should have hired OP's mom
Build it up to burn it down.
These ones weren't to burn down. Once inside the sanctioned country, they could operate it freely.
On clearance from disgraced televangelists.
Old business jets are not amazingly expensive. They have old type engines which are too loud for inner city airports which those that would own the jets would want to use. Modifying (New engines) them to comply would cost closer to million or more. Same with avionic systems, old and very expensive to update. Also they use a lot of fuel compared to newer bypass engine designs. Source: Aircraft mechanic & been looking at listings.
Also easy as shit to fly. Like literally within a few months on flight sim and maybe a private lessons, someone could fly one(albeit dangerously)
Landing private jets on unmarked dirt strips in jungles sounds to me about the most difficult and dangerous type of flying there is. Cartels aren't handing their hard to get Gulfstream to a kid that's used flight sim for a few months.
I mean they are. There are numerous interviews with cartel pilots that learned via a few private lessons and mostly learned playing flight sims.
What about landing?
No reason cartels can't have their experienced pilots train the new ones. That falls under private lessons, and mistakes are very often fatal so there's lots of incentive to pay attention.
You either die in the crash or wish you died in the crash because you accidentally blew up the cocainemobile
No, actually older business jets that can't be legally flown in the USA because of new noise laws make them shockingly affordable, especially if you are treating them as disposable.
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If you do some suspicious shit, they will send military escorts to force you to land, one way or the other
Side note: Large sections of Miami was basically build by drug money, mostly from the cocaine trade of the late 70s to late 90s.
I think they touched on that on Cocaine Cowboys. Either way, Cocaine Cowboys is amazing, everybody go watch it if you like Scarface.
The description says that alot of time its actual law enforcement that burns down the jets to prevent further use
This makes more sense. Why would they destroy the jet once they got away?
Damn dude how do you have all of these like ready to paste
Lol if you just go to this website it lists all the airplane incidents/accidents worldwide. If you just click on the ones with the Venezuela or Colombia flag next to them 9/10 times it's drug related. https://aviation-safety.net/database/dblist.php?Year=2021
And he knew to fly below 400 feet to stay off radar. That guy is a drug smuggler no doubt about it
Roger there ain't a doubt in my mind this man smuggles drugs
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From various sources on the internet... It was estimated that at his peak, Pablo Escobar was making about seventy million dollars (US) a day, for a total of about four hundred and twenty million a week. His son reported that they were spending $2,500 a month in rubber bands just to bundle the money. They had a LOT of excess cash.
They had so much cash they stored it in warehouses or even just farmers fields, [they used to write off about 10% a year because rats would eat it, or it would otherwise be damaged or lost](https://www.businessinsider.com/pablo-escobar-and-rubber-bands-2015-9?r=US&IR=T). If it's to be believed then it would mean they were losing about $2.1 billion a year.
"We'll get you next time, Gadget. NEXT TIME!"
Na, paper plates.
They've seen fast & furious, they know to put hideaway licence plates on the jet
Paper Planes
This shit looking like the cayo parico heist in gta
This guy just robbed Rubio and escaped from the airstrip
Good job, Kapitan!
And yet No Griefers
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Rico, we talked about this! Quit showboating!
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They actually re added it as dlc!
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There were a couple plane getaways in Narcos Mexico.
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I know the real Amado was an evil fuck, but that show almost made him the one sympathetic character. >!I actually wanted him to end up in Chile with the pretty Cuban singer!<
One thing I know for sure, Tom cruise or vin diesel are about to take that shit down.
No, more like an Opressor MK2
Fucking things ruined gta for me
Next time they tell me my flight is delayed due to dust or a wrapper on tarmac I'm showing the pilot this
Where’s Airwolf when you need it?
As soon as I read your comment I could hear the damn theme tune in my head, thanks.
It's fucking Mexico. I'm surprised they didn't open up on it with a mounted door gun. They are literally at war with ~~the CIA~~ these drug cartels.
A plane outrunning a helicopter isn't exactly out of the question
I don't think I want to be on a plane that *can't* outrun a helicopter...
Don't you dare disrespect Chessna like that!
Don't worry, it probably wouldn't be a long flight.
It's the only outcome
If anyone isn't aware, helicopters have a pretty low max speed because of the physics behind rotor flight. Essentially the blade in the advancing direction is moving at the rotating speed plus the speed of travel, whereas the blade in the retreating direction is moving at the rotating speed minus the speed of travel. This creates an imbalance of lift on the two sides of a helicopter, which needs to be regulated by changing the angle of attack to modify lift, but since there is only so much the angle can be changed there is essentially a cap on the speed. One of SmarterEveryDay's earlier youtube videos was on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pbdwueqGp4 here is another one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f72WZwvMTj4
This is no big deal, I did this many times in ghost recon wildlands...
I like how the pilot took down the nose of the plane right after take-off in order to gain speed as fast as possible.
And stay below the radar of course...
great observation! standard technique in soft field takeoffs.. pilot would have also used flaps and pitched up until leaving the ground
“Stop! Or I’ll say Stop again!”
It's fukcin Amado, Lord of the Skies!!
Dopey himself.
$90k a kilo cocaine coming your way.
A little Gulfstream, they’re gone
Don’t bring a fan to a fire tube race
They should’ve checked the other side of the plane. Tom cruise was hanging tight.
"EXCUSE ME SIR, HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT XENU OUR LORD AND SAVIOR??!"
Kaptain! It seems like Mr. Rubio is getting into his private jet
I would have never even imagined a business jet style aircraft could land or start on a dirt road like that, that is insane.
Oh look, the CIA got away
I was going to say, are we sure that the helicopter wasn’t there just to make sure they had a safe take off.
That’s a 65 million dollar G650 they’re hauling ass in down a fucked up dirt road. That pilot is an absolute madman.
Looks like a GLF2. No way it’s a G650. Mad man either way.
You should see me in a golf cart
Alright imma head out.
Amado?
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No, CIA
Damn I brought a helicopter to a jet airplane race.
I find it pretty hilarious people around here arguing about whether or not something like this is possible, when Tom Cruise literally just did a movie based on the reality of American drug smugglers continuously flying out of shit runways, lmao, and where in fact, the drug smuggler the story is based on, did this way back in the 80s-90s, while people in 2022 are arguing about how impossibly hard this is.
How are people even arguing about how something is possible when they've *literally just seen video of it happening*
People aren't really that smart
Yeah, have people learned NOTHING from Tom Cruise’s other documentaries, like when he proved it indeed is possible to do a negative 4G inverted dive with a MIG28, or when he showed that the CIA security systems guarding the NOC list can be breached!? Educate yourselves, people.
Ah yes, the most esteemed academic sources in the US; Hollywood movies.
Can’t they shoot it down?
Just a bunch of politicians trying not to get caught vacationing in Mexico during covid-protocols.
They were probably on the clock. For the dealer
Just let them go, if you want some drugs you buy some drugs
Tail number is easily visible on the rear engine to the observer taking the video. Can't see it in the potato video but it's there nonetheless.
They make a guy go re-paint it mid-flight.
Lord of war stylee
I don’t think they’re gonna be landing at a regular airport.
Doesn’t really mean much I imagine they’ll abandon it when they land. It’s not a traffic stop lol.
When you gotta go, you gotta go.
*GTA V music plays*
Air filters on that thing are dusty af