Intercepted by a Brazilian Air Force (FAB) A-29 Super Tucano, the pilot of an irregular flight landed and set fire to his aircraft, fleeing before the police arrived.
As part of Joint Operation Agata South, today the FAB intercepted a suspicious single-engine Piper PA-28 flying without a flight plan in the western region of Paraná (southern Brazil). Air defense pilots monitored the aircraft, using A-29 Super Tucano aircraft and the EMB-145 AEW&C Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft (designated in the FAB as E-99).
The pilot of the suspect aircraft made a landing on a runway in the city of Tuneiras do Oeste (Paraná State), fleeing the scene, leaving the aircraft in flames before police officers arrived.
JOINT OPERATION AGATE SOUTH
Ágata Conjunta Sul is an interagency work coordinated by the Ministry of Defense which aims to carry out preventive and repressive actions, on land and maritime borders, against cross-border and environmental crimes, in coordination with security and federal agencies and state supervision. In effect since July 1st, the Operation has been launched in the Southern Region of Brazil – Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul.
Participating in Operation Agate are: the Brazilian Navy, the Brazilian Army, the Brazilian Air Force, the Federal Police, the Federal Highway Police, the Federal Revenue Service, ABIN, IBAMA, Anvisa, ICMBio, ANATEL, the Public Security/Military Police/Civil Police/Military Fire Brigades and the Secretariats of Agriculture of the states in the southern region of the country, as well as other federal, state and municipal inspection bodies.
