Stolen jet fuel ruled out for commercial airlines

by times news cr

2024-07-09 18:42:20

Hector Manuel Romero Sanchez, security expert, explained that there is no evidence that the turbosina robbed in the mayor’s office Gustavo A. Madero It is not used in commercial airlines, but it would be used in jets of the organized crime who traffic drugs and perhaps for some private companies that operate in the airports of Puebla, Querétaro y Toluca.

He recalled that there is evidence of the puncture of ducts of turbosine in mexico since 2018 and even pointed out that a few days ago a tanker truck with the hydrocarbon was found abandoned in San Luis Potosí, but there is still not much evidence to estimate quantities stolen by huachicoleros.

Romero, a transportation and logistics analyst for the Safeway Group, stressed that fuel theft is close to 604 Avenue and Texcoco Avenue near Terminal 1 From the airport and they are checking three lines, but compared to the gasoline theft that is projected, there are more than 90 thousand illegal taps, the jet fuel theft is a crime that practically takes place within a short period of time.

He added that the point of the fire where it is still unknown whether it was caused by jet fuel, diesel or some other fuel should be considered as the Zero zone for the investigation for the authorities and explained that this stolen jet fuel can cost up to 30% less than its value, of course on the black market.

“Organized crime has its own fleets of planes, its helicopters to move drugs,” there would also be the use of stolen turbosine.

In addition, Ramos explained that the use of clandestine or irregular runways is documented and known in various parts of the country and mainly in entities such as Sinaloa, Jalisco and Michoacán, points where this drug would be sold. huachicol.

He clarified that, at the moment, there is no accessible technology to transform the jet fuel used specifically in aircraft into any other type of fuel. combustible, That is, there is no way to use it otherwise, “it has to be only in aircraft.”

He added that the profit from the theft of this energy can be 30% less than its real cost, but in places like the border, There could still be greater profits theresince the costs are different.

In this regard, José Alonso Torres, spokesman for the Association of Unions of Airline Pilots (ASPA), commented that there are many controls, so commercial airlines such as Aeroméxico would not have access to this stolen fuel or some others that operate in the AIFA and in the Mexico City International Airport.

2024-07-09 18:42:20

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