The Bahamas is home to one of the few Pablo Escobar artifacts that has not been destroyed

Thirty years after the death of Colombian boss Pablo Escobar, his stories continue to provide information.

At the end of 2023, the condition of a plane belonging to the extinct head of the Medellín Cartel, which sank in the Caribbean Sea, intensified.

Infobae reported that “there is one of the few artifacts belonging to the boss in the Bahamas that has not been destroyed.”

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What happened to Pablo Escobar’s plane?

Photos of the aircraft on the seabed were released in August and October 2023.

In La Nación they reported that in the 1980s Escobar had “purchased a twin-engine plane, the first and largest of its kind, with which he transported the money raised daily from the north to Colombia.”

But he insisted that “a bad maneuver” sent the plane to the bottom of the Caribbean Sea with cocaine in it!”

Infobae also emphasized that it was a Curtiss C-46 aircraft, which was “one of the largest aircraft in the world” in that decade.

“As a result of poor pilot maneuver,” the Southern outlet echoed, “the aircraft left the runway and sank off the coast of Norman Cay Island.”

At the time of the accident at sea, “the two drug smuggling pilots were killed instantly. The next day, fragments of the hull and blocks of cocaine appeared on the coast,” El Tiempo described.

What is Norman Cay

Infobae explained that Cayo Norman is “an island in the Bahamas that was owned by Carlos Lehder, Escobar’s partner in the Medellín Cartel.”

It is estimated that every day, El Tiempo noted, “more than 15 tons of cocaine were sent from Norman Cay to the United States, generating a weekly income of approximately $420 million.”

Between 1978 and 1982, Norman Cay – in the Bahamas near the southern coast of Florida – served as an operations center for the shipment of cocaine to the United States.

How is the plane

Ken Kiefer, an American photographer, dived into the Caribbean Sea as a diver to capture images of what it was like to visit the boss’s plane.

On his networks he wrote: “The plane crashed during a drug deal for Pablo Escobar… It was great to see and be close to a part of history that is now also a home to marine life. “My wife Kimber dived around the wreck and checked the aircraft and the fish life that had collected.”

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Attraction for tourism

The plane stimulates tourism in the Bahamas. They even promoted on social networks to go and see the plane and with a video they pointed out: “In Norman Cay (Bahamas) you can snorkel in one of the planes that Pablo Escobar used to stop smuggling into the United States to introduce.”

(JO)