Suspect Venezuelan plane intercepted over Colombia's San Andres Island

<a href=www.vheadline.com>Venezuela's Electronic News Posted: Thursday, May 08, 2003 By: Patrick J. O'Donoghue

The Colombian Air Force has  intercepted a Venezuelan plane, as it flew over the Colombian island of San Andres off the Panamanian coast ... Colombian Air Force commander, General Hector Fabio Velasco reports that the plane left Venezuela at 8.25 p.m. and was picked up on radar at 10.25. 

Three Colombian citizens were aboard the Russian-made light plane YV-1052-CP, which Velasco says, was flown on a provisional license by an unauthorized pilot. 

A Colombian Air Force jet forced the plane to return with it and land at the Ernesto Cortez Air Force Base in Barranquilla. The three men are being interrogated in connection with narco-trafficking and drug runs.