An aircraft used to illegally transport miners and transport minerals in the Yanomami Indigenous Land, in Roraima, was set on fire early on Wednesday (12), according to the Brazilian Air Force (FAB).
A joint effort by the Federal Highway Police (PRF), the Armed Forces and the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama) identified the plane, the second to be set on fire by the authorities, five days after the closure of air corridors in the region. No miners were found at the site.
On Thursday (6), the authorities carried out the first policing action, destroying an aircraft on the ground and arresting two men on a clandestine runway for illegal mining, inside the Yanomami Indigenous Land.
The destructions are part of a series of actions to combat illegal air traffic. According to the FAB, only military aircraft or authorized flights sent by public bodies involved in Operation Yanomami are allowed in the region.
Closure of the air corridor
To control air traffic in Yanomami Land, the Air Defense Identification Zone (Zida) was created, which should ensure air policing.
Aircraft that fail to comply with the closure will be warned and directed to a mandatory landing, and may even be hit by the so-called “arrest shots”, which are intended to damage the invading aircraft.
(Published by Gustavo Zanfer, with information from Agência Brasil)
Source: CNN Brasil
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