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Australian was flying crashed plane carrying cocaine in Brazil, police say
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Australian was flying crashed plane carrying cocaine in Brazil, police say

  • September 15, 2025

The plane was registered in the African nation of Zambia, media reports claim.

Footage published online shows firefighters and police in the sugarcane field and more than 70 individually packaged bricks stacked in front of a police banner.

According to reports from Gazeta, a Victorian driver’s licence belonging to a 46-year-old from the east of Melbourne was found in the wreckage.

NewsWire was unable to independently verify the reports.

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