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In
the two weeks since an American DC9
airliner
was busted by Mexican troops at a
small airport in the Yucatan, carrying 5.5 tons of
cocaine packed neatly into 128
identical black suitcases, (all
somewhat hilariously marked 'private'),
the search for the true owners of
the plane has produced these
startling new developments...
The busted DC9, which we've dubbed
"Cocaine One," had an
identical twin. There was a
second airliner painted with the same
distinctive
blue-and-white-with-gold-trim of
official U.S. aircraft, the
MadCowMorningNews can
reveal exclusively, and under the
control of the same company, or
Company.

SkyWay Aircraft was
the only tangible asset of something
laughing called SkyWay
Communications Holding,
basically nothing more than a meager
excuse to run a penny stock fraud
scam which successfully relieved
investors of over $40 million
dollars in only three years.
During 2003 and 2004, both DC9's
controlled by the firm (N-numbers
N900SA & N120NE) boasted an
official-looking Seal beside the
door bearing the familiar image of
an American eagle clutching olive
branches and arrows in its talons,
around which were emblazoned the
words "SKYWAY AIRCRAFT, PROTECTION
OF AMERICA'S SKIES."
The Seal and paint job made the
planes look like they belong to
Homeland Security, specifically the
TSA (Transportation Security
Administration.)
A cover story should at least provide
a little, you know...cover
The tricked-out airliners were
said to have been used to
perform in-flight demonstrations of
SKYWAYS AIRCRAFT and its
corporate parent SKYWAY
COMMUNICATIONS HOLDING CORP'S
new technology.
But
that was not the point of the
planes.
SkyWay said it's patented technology
promised to protect airplanes from
terrorism, and provide high-speed
Internet at 30,000 feet. To the
shock and anger of investors who
lost 30-40 million dollars, however,
it did nothing of the kind.
But even a cursory inspection of the
company and its principals quickly reveals
that SkyWays had nothing to demonstrate.
No products. And no prospects.
What they did have, though...
was planes.
Planes which looked like official
U.S. aircraft.
Imagine that.
Vancouver
stock scams make a sudden appearance
in our tale
SkyWay Aircraft wasn't
in the business of in-flight
entertainment or Homeland Security.
They were in the business of putting
out press releases.
Were we being too harsh? Could the company’s management
have just been over-enthusiastic and
overly-optimistic? Not a chance...
In
fact, the company's principals ran almost the
same penny fraud scam several years earlier with
similarly gratifying (for them)
results.
At
that time they were linked in the
press with a Vancouver stock
promoter who was kicked off the
Vancouver Stock Exchange, Rene
Hamouth, and a U.S. promoter
described by Forbes magazine as a
"persuasive scoundrel" found to have
been guilty of "awarding himself
millions in excessive compensation,
siphoning off company funds to cover
personal expenses and diverting
company assets."
The firm was called Satellite
Access Systems,(SAS) which
as best we can figure out ended up
being worth about three
one-thousands of a penny per share.
Glenn and Brent Kovar, a father-and-son pair of
scamsters and penny stock fraud
specialists, "ran" (we used the word
advisedly) SkyWay.
But, as they say in TV-land: Here's
the beauty part...
Chairman Glenn Kovar
liked to
boast about his
long-standing ties to
the CIA.
We took the seals off. Forget about
the seals.
Geffon
was happy to talk about the
bankruptcy last year of Brent and
Glenn Kovar. “Their company (Skyway
Aircraft & Holding Co.) is a scam
and he’s a scammer. I got sold a
bill of goods about his stock.
Everybody out here at the airport
invested with him, and we all lost
it all.”
In an
exclusive interview, the last registered American
owner of the aircraft confiscated in
Mexico was quick to
point out, that when the DC9 left
the general aviation terminal at the
Clearwater-St. Pete International
Airport where he maintains an office
and flew to Caracas on
April 5th of this year, and then on
its ignominious rendezvous with destiny,
it was not his concern.
Moreover, he told us,
the phony Homeland Security Seal had
been removed before it left, a
statement confirmed by photos of the
plane taken in Mexico after its
interdiction (see photo above.)
'N' numbers are like car
registrations, only not as precise

It
was one of the Top Ten Drug Seizures in
World History.
But among the numerous mysteries surrounding the
case is why the story of a mountain
of cocaine
headed straight downhill for the U.S. market
had been received by U.S. officials
and the major media
with such stony silence.
U.S. authorities
made no
statement about the identity of the
organization involved in the massive
drug move.
Nor did they address a serious question freighted with
obvious national
security implications:
What was an airliner impersonating
an official Dept of Homeland
Security aircraft owned by crooks
boasting of American intelligence
connections end up involved in
drug smuggling?
The question
must be considered impolite: On
whose behalf did all that coke take
wing?
Youth wants to know.
Maybe "Cocaine One" was flown by
remote control
Even the identity of the co-pilot arrested
with the plane (the
pilot escaped natch)
remains something of a mystery. A theory
was being
floated by Venezuelan officials in Caracas
this week that the airliner had switched
crews somewhere after leaving Caracas
but before being busted in
Ciudad del Carmen in Mexico's state
of Campeche.
Why
has the owner of an
airliner carrying 5.5
tons of cocaine remain unidentified?
Nobody’s saying. Not the FAA. And
not the former owner of the plane,
who refuses to divulge to whom it
was sold.
According to FAA registration
information available online at the
time the story broke, the DC-9 used
by the smugglers on their flight
from Caracas Venezuela had been
registered to Royal Sons LLC, an
aircraft broker in Clearwater owned
by Frederic Geffon.
But several days later the FAA
announced that the DC9 in question
had been “delisted and
exported to Venezuela,” retroactive
to a date just two day after of its
interdiction by the Mexican
military.
"The FAA been berry berry good to
me"

An
email from an FAA official did
little to clear up the confusion...
“Our records show Douglas DC9-15,
serial number 45775, formerly
N900SA, was cancelled 04/13/2006,
for export to Venezuela. The
aircraft was last registered in the
name of Royal Sons Inc, 15875
Fairchild Dr, Clearwater FL. The
file will not be available to be
sent out until it is updated in
approximately 2 weeks.”
We wondered:
Had someone been caught with their
hand in a cookie jar that the FAA
was now clumsily trying to
extricate?
Was the FAA’s refusal to release
ownership records for at least several more weeks
indicate that the question of who owned
"cocaine One"
is a question, like that of who
had walked off with
the half-trillion dollars that
somehow “disappeared” during America’s
Savings and Loan Scandal, fated to
never receive an answer?
Out at the Clearwater-St. Pete
International Airport, Royal Son’s owner
Frederic Geffon could not agree more
with the FAA’s statement, because it exonerates Royals Sons LLC from
any ownership
responsibility for
the plane as it was hauling 5.5
tons of cocaine across the Caribbean
to the Yucatan from Caracas
Venezuela.
Like the song says: "It wasn't me"
In
an exclusive interview with the
MadCowMorningNews, Geffon
claimed he sold the DC9 weeks ago...
“I
had nothing at all to do with the
plane by the time it was busted,”
Geffon told us. “I sold it three
weeks ago (in late March) to an
aircraft broker, on behalf of
someone in Venezuela.”
“The airplane was out of my name,”
he continued. “I sent a blank form
to the title company. Another
airplane broker was also involved. It was delisted
on the
same day as the incident."
On other
questions, however,
Geffon proved less helpful. Asked the name of the
Venezuelan buyer he sold the plane
to, he
responded, “I’m not at liberty to
say. I’ve been asked not to say to
whom the plane was sold.”
Who asked him not to say?
“I’ve been asked not to say who
asked me not to say,” he said with a
straight face.
Place all our folders in "suspense"
please
We asked Geffon: Could he could tell
us who was piloting the plane when
it
left Clearwater?
“No,
because I wasn’t looking out the
window,” he replied. “I was focused
on business.”
Could all the confusion be deliberate?
An aviation executive in Venice
thought so...
"When it comes to registering
airplanes, it’s the Wild West out
there," he explained.
“An airplane is a mobile, big ticket
item. Yet there are no airport
police doing ramp checks, or
checking N numbers at airports.”
“The FAA system for registering
airplanes is little-changed from
when it was started back in the good
ol boy days of the 1930’s. Each
plane has a paper folder, for
example, stuffed with all
correspondence regarding
airworthiness and ownership relating
to that plane.”
“Its an antiquated system which some
feel is kept deliberately in place
to encourage a certain ambiguity
when a plane is interdicted. When a
change of registration is mailed in,
the FAA places a plane’s folder in
what they call “suspense.”
“That’s a tremendous inducement to
anyone with a chance of having a
plane nabbed to keep sales in
progress. The CIA, for example, is
very adept at keeping files on its
planes “in suspense.”
If
the plane was mistaken for one
belonging to the U.S. Government,
our aviation
source in Venice told us with a
smirk, it would have definitely been
an advantage if it was trafficking
narcotics.
Did somebody say…
CIA?
But wait. There's more...
"One of us cannot be wrong"
“Glenn Kovar told everybody he was
with the CIA,” Frederic
Geffon told us. “A lot of people at
the airport believed him, and became
investors in his scam.”
Of
course, questioning whether there
could be a Central Intelligence
Agency connection to 5.5 tons of
cocaine is, to some, (and
you know who you are)
akin to asking out loud if the
Pope might be Catholic.
One of two things must be true: What
we're looking at here is a pattern
of systematic ambiguity meant to
protect the privacy of the rich and
famous.
To
keep their options open... A pattern
which plays right into the hands of
the unscrupulous, namely drug
dealers, and/or, worse yet,
terrorists.
Or... we're fantasizing. And what
the FAA is saying is true...
is true...
The "Cocaine One" DC9
has passed through several owners
since it was owned by SkyWay
Aircraft.
None of this is at all germane to
the story of 128 suitcases filled
with cocaine, baking in the heat on
a runway in the Yucatan.
And you... you've wasted your time.
You could have been surfing for
internet porn.
Still here? Okay, we'll continue.
But, fair warning. Enter at your own
risk.
Abandon all hope, all ye who enter
here...
Break up the Yankees, FEMA, & the
FAA
What first taught us to take the word of
the FAA with at least a few pinches
of salt had been the numerous
occasions during the research for
Welcome to
TERRORLAND where we had learned
of big-time corruption inside the
FAA.
The FAA had gone out of its way to
protect terror flight school honcho
Rudi Dekkers, for example. An
aviation mechanic who worked for
Dekkers said he'd been forced by law
to report criminal acts which he
witnessed Dekkers commit. "Dekkers
did an import of an airplane," the
mechanic explained.
"We found dents on the front of a
wing and replaced sheet metal, and
then we found ribs that were
crushed, which renders an airplane
un-airworthy. Yet Dekkers still sold
the plane!"
"And when I turned him in to the
FAA, they didn’t do a damn thing."
A
second brief example should suffice.
It also involved Rudi Dekkers. He
had forged another aviation
executive’s signature on a repair
order to indicate required repair
work on a helicopter had been
completed. When that executive
discovered it, he told us, he too
was legally compelled to report it
to the FAA.
"I
couldn’t believe it,” he said
indignantly. "I called the FAA to
report a violation and was warned to
leave Dekkers alone. An FAA guy came
out and sat me down and said:
‘I suggest you
back out of this.'"
Deconstructing
the official story
The official explanation so far
appears to be that a shadowy and
still-unnamed-but-obviously-very-unlucky
Venezuelan company bought a DC9
airliner that used to use camouflage
to appear to be a U.S. Government
plane, and then got caught with 5
tons of cocaine.
Those crazy Venezuelans! Muy
stupido, non?
On
the off chance that things are
not be what they seem in the
explanation being offered to explain
5.5 tons of cocaine to the great
unwashed masses who aren't on
a need to know" basis, we
decided to take a look at who had
owned the plane before its epic
flight...
The two DC9’s were purchased several
years ago by a still-unexplained
partnership between Frederic
Geffon’s Royal Sons LLC
and
SkyWay Aircraft, a
subsidiary (the only subsidiary) of
SkyWay Communications Holdings Corp.
Given the high level of intrigue
surrounding the case,
the revelation that we are no longer
talking about the ownership of just
one airliner tricked out to
resemble a government plane
but two...
comes as something less than a
shock.
Why we believe Skyways Aircraft
will be shown to have involvement in
the story of the coke line to heaven
is because they were the ones responsible for
painting two DC9's to look like they
belong to the US Dept of Homeland
Security.
It
does not appear to have been an
innocent act.
Moreover, the airliners were parked at the
general aviation terminal at the
Clearwater St. Petersburg Airport, just a few hundred yards away
from a major U.S. Coast Guard
facility housed at the
airport.
Yet—despite America’s hyper-security
conscious post-9.11 aviation
environment—two airliners
conspicuously painted to resemble
government planes sitting beside a
facility of a branch of the U.S.
military apparently aroused no
suspicion.
How strange is that? We wanted to
ask, about that, and other things
too. Had they ever heard of
elite deviance, or deep politics, or
state-sponsored crime?
Alas, although we remain
hopeful, our calls to the Coast
Guard Station at the Clearwater-St
Petersburg Airport for comment have
not yet been returned.
Perhaps someone else might have
better luck.
Thursday: The rest of the story. It
gets even weirder.
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