Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"Yesterday evening or last night sometime after 11pm, an illicit track was declared leaving South America coming our way. As we normally would do in these instances, we would coordinate through JIOC in ensuring that we deploy personnels in different areas that we suspect the plane may likely go and land. We monitor the track until it enters our airspace sometime after 1, 2 this morning, and it disappeared about 2 miles away from the Belize/Guatemalan border in the south. Our counterparts have indicated to us that the plane landed in Belizean territory near the border with Guatemala in some extremely rugged terrain. And so the BDF did a flyover with the aircraft and we also sent in a jet team comprising of police and BDF to the location and a few minutes ago, they were able to locate the plane in Belizean territory, just as was indicated to us near the Guatemalan border so it's a small, it's a jet and it has been destroyed by fire."

Courtney Menzies:
"So no cargo whatsoever?"

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"No cargo was found on the plane."

Courtney Menzies:
"What about a makeshift airstrip?"

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"Yes an airstrip is there that the plane landed on. From all indications from the team on the ground is that the plane landed well, was not damaged during landing but after landing it was pulled on the side and burnt."

Courtney Menzies:
"Roughly what time would you say it landed?"

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"It landed this morning sometime between 3 and 4."

Multiple law enforcement sources suggest to us that standby patrols were activated because the plane was in the area and then stood down - and by the time one unit was deployed to respond to the landing site, it had already been cleared.