The plane left Tapachula, in the extreme south of Mexico, heading for the Dominican Republic. The crew had a local contact who had taken care of everything: receiving them, coordinating the landing, and paying a bribe of $150,000 dollars to the authorities of the airport of La Romana, a small city on the eastern end of the island. The bribe was crucial to getting a false flight plan, one of the key pieces of the plan. After the stopover in the Caribbean, the Hawker jet, registration number N483FG, headed for Brazil, the destination that its false itinerary specified . . .
