Brazil intercepts illegal flight over Indigenous land invaded by gold miners
The Brazilian Air Force said on Tuesday it fired warning shots at a plane and forced it to land for violating a no-fly ban over the Yanomami Indigenous reservation where illegal gold miners have been returning despite federal efforts to keep them away. Two bursts of machine gun fire were fired during the interdiction on Monday to warn the pilot of the unregistered plane - a single-engine Cessna 182 - to change course and land, according to a video released by the Air Force. Shortly after landing on an earthen airstrip, the pilot escaped into the rainforest, evading Federal Police who had arr...