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So there was no firefight, and all that may have been caused by close tracking of the plane by “air assetsâ€￾ from neighbouring countries.  Commissioner Williams says the pilot and his ground counterparts probably knew that the plane was being tracked in the air, which forced him to make a landing and quick escape.  

But, what were they going to do with those tonnes of cocaine?  Surely, moving all that weight by road would have been impractical.  Williams says they were probably going to push the cargo out through the sea:

Jules Vasquez
"Is it your belief that it was intended for maritime conveyance or that it was intended for land transfer? Because it's very difficult to move that volume of cocaine without being detected."

Chester Williams - Commissioner of Police
"The trend we have seen recently is the maritime especially when it comes to if they have to move within the country for an extended period of time, they run the risk of being caught as opposed to using the maritime domain. So we believe that they would have moved from the coast of that location to a maritime location and then get it out."