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cash of RM100 today! T&Cs apply.SYDNEY, March 12 — An Australian aircraft owner appeared in court on Thursday charged with people smuggling after allegedly helping two fugitives flee to Indonesia on a “black flight” from a remote peninsula, police said. Indonesian officials detained four men in the Merauke district of Indonesia’s easternmost region of Papua upon arrival in November, after the small fixed-wing aircraft’s two pilots failed to declare their two passengers in documents. An investigation found one man was on bail for alleged kidnapping offences in Sydney and the other was wanted for alleged drug trafficking, Australian federal police said. The pair travelled thousands of kilometres from Sydney to Australia’s north-eastern tip, boarding the plane at a remote indigenous fishing town on the Cape York peninsula in Queensland.A “black flight” typically sees planes log false flight plans, fly at low altitude or turn off their transponders in a bid to evade detection by authorities. “This was a very sophisticated strategy to exit Australia,” detective superintendent Adrian Telfer told reporters. Police allege the 43-year-old owner of an aviation company in Rockhampton, Queensland, coordinated the escape. He appeared in court on Thursday charged with people smuggling offences that carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in jail.The four men on the flight remain detained in Indonesia, police said.Federal police last month vowed to crack down on “black flights” operating across the vast and porous border between Queensland and Papua New Guinea over community concerns about drug trafficking and regional security. — AFP
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