Tag: plane crash

  • The Mystery on Mutton Mountain

    The Mystery on Mutton Mountain

    A chapter from Gangster Planet The crash of a Cessna Citation business jet three weeks ago in mountainous terrain in Oregon raises questions—both immediate and going back twenty years—about the pilot who died when it nosedived into the ground at 400 miles per hour. The pilot, Richard Boehlke, is no stranger to trouble. In 2000 and…

  • Did Tom Cruise helicopter clip doomed ‘Mena’ plane?

    Did Tom Cruise helicopter clip doomed ‘Mena’ plane?

    Both men who died in the crash of a twin-engine plane in Colombia last week on the shoot for Tom Cruise’s new “Mena” movie have backgrounds more like those of spies, spooks, drug movers or clandestine agents than pilots on a film shoot. One owned offshore entities in the Netherland Antilles that controlled even more offshore entities, very useful for money laundering; owned a…

  • EXCLUSIVE: Drug Traffickers Own Jenni Rivera Death Plane

    The owner of the Learjet  whose crash in Mexico's Sierra Madre Mountains killed popular singer Jenni Rivera is from a prominent family in Monterrey which supplied drug planes during the 1990’s to drug baron Amador Carrillo, known as “The Lord of the Skies” for flying tons of cocaine, often on Boeing 727’s, into the U.S.