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About 100 kg of cocaine has burnt down as a result of an air crash in Honduras. The plane was carrying more than 1 tone of cocaine and under the preliminary version of the authorities the drug had to be transported from Venezuela to the USA and Honduras ' Bay Islands was used as a transit territory.

According to Vice Minister of Security Mario Perdomo, the aircraft was pursued by two U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration helicopters. For unknown reasons the plane ran into the earth, the pilot died and about 100 kg of cocaine has burnt down.

Later on 10th of March, U.S. Embassy spokeswoman Ledy Pacheco affirmed that U.S. aircraft hadn’t been pursuing the plane but said the DEA did help Honduras authorities locate the plane. But Honduran Security Ministry spokesman Hector Ivan Mejia denied U.S.  involvement. He also mentioned that authorities are investigating "whether drug traffickers landed the plane and set it ablaze or if the pilot didn't manoeuvre it right and crashed."

Because of its special geographical position the Caribbean Sea coast in the east of Honduras, is used for a long time already by the Latin American traffickers as the basic way of drugs transportation to North America. During the last years the sea patrol of Honduras has intercepted in this area a considerable quantity of boats and small planes that were transporting drugs. Nevertheless, a huge part of narcotic substances annually gets to the USA. Washington hopes to solve the given problem by building in Honduras a joint base on struggling against traffickers. Its building had begun in February this year, and starting date for working is planned for the beginning of 2010 year.