Plane seized in Argentina complied with international protocols in Mexico

The Venezuelan cargo plane that remains held in Buenos Aires complied with all the requirements and protocols necessary for its operation in Mexico, an official from the state of Querétaro (center), from where it departed, assured on Tuesday.

“All the review that was carried out in Querétaro by the federal authorities and the airport administration complied with international protocols,” the secretary of Sustainable Development of the local government, Marco Antonio Del Prete, told AFP.

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Given suspicions about the reasons for their presence in Buenos Aires, the Argentine justice system prohibited the departure of the country of 14 Venezuelans and five Iranians who make up the crew of the Boeing-747, according to two rulings announced on Monday and this Tuesday.

The flight operated by the company Emtrasur – a subsidiary of the Venezuelan company Conviasa – had arrived in Querétaro with four crew members and had received authorization in Mexico to cover the Caracas-Querétaro-Caracas-Buenos Aires-Caracas route, the secretary added.

“I don’t know if there was any change in the flight plan once it left Mexican airspace,” Del Prete stressed.

The freighter landed at the Mexican airport on June 4 around 6:30 local time (11:30 GMT), Del Prete said, without specifying the identity or nationality of the crew because it was not within his jurisdiction.

The flight arrived two days late due to a delay in the delivery of documents such as the “airworthiness certificate of the plane, the registration certificate, both local and international insurance and the airworthiness certificate of the country of origin, in addition to the documentation of the crew”, detailed the secretary.

After refueling and loading “industrial merchandise”, the Boeing left Querétaro on June 5 at 6:37 p.m. “with the knowledge of the Federal Civil Aviation Agency, the National Migration Institute,” the customs authorities and the airport administration, the spokesman said.

“Querétaro’s international airport is certified by different international bodies in terms of the safety of its operations and the processes it carries out,” he said.

Argentina considers the presence of Iranian travelers sensitive, due to the international arrest warrants in force against former rulers of that country accused of the attack against the AMIA Jewish center in 1994, which left 85 dead and some 300 injured.

Source: Elcomercio

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