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‘Black flight’: Charter flight boss charged over alleged plot to smuggle Australians into Indonesia

Sydney Morning Herald - Latest News·@ZachHopeJackGramenzKaruniRompies·7 months ago
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Singapore: The owner of a small Queensland aviation business is expected to appear in court over an alleged plot to smuggle an Australian man on bail for kidnapping, and another wanted for large-scale drug trafficking, into Indonesia. Grant Schultz, 42, the owner of Rockhampton-based Stirling Helicopters, has been charged with two counts of people smuggling and is expected to appear in a Queensland court on Thursday. The alleged “black flight” was busted by Indonesian immigration authorities on November 17 at Merauke, in the Indonesian province of South Papua, when two passengers were discovered on board a twin-engine Piper aircraft without visas or passports. The flight from the remote Queensland community of Coen to Merauke was flown by an Indonesian pilot and a young Australian pilot, whom this masthead understands is named Jay Davis. Sources close to the company have told this masthead that Davis may have been fooled or misled about the nature of the mission.…

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