{"id":24592,"date":"2025-09-15T22:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T22:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/24592\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T22:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T22:38:08","slug":"australian-was-flying-crashed-plane-carrying-cocaine-in-brazil-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/24592\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian was flying crashed plane carrying cocaine in Brazil, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"IGIlsTinqXLQ\" style=\"display:none\">The plane was registered in the African nation of Zambia, media reports claim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"IGIlsTinqXLQ\" style=\"display:none\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"IGIlsTinqXLQ\" style=\"display:none\">According to reports from Gazeta, a Victorian driver\u2019s licence belonging to a 46-year-old from the east of Melbourne was found in the wreckage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"IGIlsTinqXLQ\" style=\"display:none\">NewsWire was unable to independently verify the reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"IGIlsTinqXLQ\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/profile\/newsletters\/?from=cmp\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/profile\/newsletters\/?from=cmp\">Sign up to Herald Premium Editor\u2019s Picks<\/a>, delivered straight to your inbox every Friday. Editor-in-Chief Murray Kirkness picks the week\u2019s best features, interviews and investigations. Sign up for Herald Premium <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/subscription\/offers\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/subscription\/offers\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The plane was registered in the African nation of Zambia, media reports claim. Footage published online shows firefighters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1135,1558,575,138,1875,20926,3549,15979,11784,17628,78,2205,10136,111,139,69,19723,15026,675,5659,7821,6736,4767],"class_list":["post-24592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-australian","tag-been","tag-brazil","tag-business","tag-carrying","tag-cocaine","tag-crash","tag-crashed","tag-fatal","tag-flying","tag-in","tag-involved","tag-named","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pilot","tag-plane","tag-police","tag-say","tag-victorian","tag-was","tag-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}