The Sun reports on yet another British Airways drug bust, this time involving a Boeing 777-200ER that had just flown from Orlando (MCO) to London Gatwick (LGW). After the flight, the aircraft was towed into a maintenance hangar for some routine maintenance.
While that was being performed, a service engineer made quite the startling discovery in one of the lavatories — there was a brick of cocaine valued at £100K hidden in a panel behind a bin in the lavatory. The engineer then called the police, and now Border Force and the National Crime Agency are investigating the incident. Those are all the details that are known as of now.
As mentioned above, this is the second drug bust in a matter of days involving a Gatwick-based British Airways 777, as a Cancun to London flight was also canceled after authorities in Mexico suspended boarding of the flight, so that they could search some bags on the plane, which were later found to have drugs in them.
Busted: £100K In Cocaine Stashed In British Airways 777 Lavatory
