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Anish Vij
A YouTuber, who tasked himself with finding 'Pablo Escobar’s abandoned plane', went and actually found it... well, maybe.
Fearless & Far presenter Mike Corey went on a three-day hike in Mexico with his team last year to locate the so-called 'drug plane'.
Not a lot is known about the aircraft apart from it was supposedly carrying a large shipment of drugs when it crashed in Yucatan in 1966.
It has been rumoured that Colombian drug lord Escobar - who dominated the global cocaine trade in the 80s - was the owner of the plane. However, this has never been confirmed, given the fact that the cargo plane was discovered 13 years after it crashed, without anyone in it.
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Whatever was in that aircraft was never found, and actually getting to it these days is a more than difficult task.
Not to mention there's some pretty scary creatures lurking about within the area, including the odd poisonous snake.
Just hours into the journey, Mike came face-to-face with one of said snakes, and had no idea what he was looking at.
"We knew this adventure was going to be intense, but right now we're trying to hop over legs bare foot... we don't know what kind of snake that was," he said in his YouTube video shared last year.
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"The s**t we do for adventure. It's spooky... it's all just a net of spikes and hooks."
Finally, three days into their trip, they were able to locate the plane, buried deep in the forest.
"That's it! We found it!" Mike said.
"It kind of feels like a mountain peak. So happy we made it."
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And after all these years, the outside of the aircraft was very much intact, while the inside contained a pilot's seat, steering wheel and window.
Worryingly, the top of the aircraft was covered with bullet holes.
"Maybe they were shot down, maybe there was another problem," Mike pointed out.
"I'm assuming what happened was they crashed, didn't die and they tried to make it back and died in the forest.
"Or, they got rescued in a helicopter; there's no cargo on this now, it mysteriously disappeared. The mystery is unsolved."
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Well, Escobar’s net worth at the height of his power in the 80s is estimated to have been around $30 billion (over $60 billion today).
On 2 December, 1993, he died aged 44 in Medellin during a rooftop shootout with Colombian National Police, a day after his hideout was located following a 16-month manhunt.