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American Airlines Workers Find Cocaine In Airplane Nose Gear Well

Aircraft Had Recently Arrived From Colombia

Workers at American Airlines' maintenance base in Tulsa, OK got a surprise while working on the nose gear of one of the carriers' jets.

Authorities say that 31 pounds of cocaine worth about $434,000 was discovered in the nose gear well of the aircraft.

Fox News reports that the airplane had flown from Bogota, Colombia to Miami, FL on Sunday. But apparently before the drugs could be retrieved, the plane was flagged for maintenance and flown to the maintenance base in Tulsa.

There, a worker noticed something that looked like chunks of insulation or a brick in the wheel well. The employee called the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office, and they came out to inspect the aircraft. What they found were seven bricks of cocaine worth about $14,000 per pound.

Tulsa County Sheriff's Office spokesman Justin Green said that the case has been handed over to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency in Miami.

(Image provided by the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office)

FMI: www.dea.gov

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