Cocaine covered peanuts found on Avianca flight

Airline Industry Information, Oct 31, 2003

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Federal investigators reportedly discovered USD20,000 worth of cocaine on an Avianca flight from Colombia to Miami.

The cocaine was discovered in 51 bags of peanuts during a routine search of the aircraft by a drug-sniffing dog. No passengers on the flight from Barranquilla, Colombia ate any of the peanuts that held a total of 1.17 kilograms of the drug.

Officials are currently attempting to determine who loaded the peanuts on the aircraft and where they came from, according to The Associated Press.

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