Introducing “Fly By Night”, with stories of pilots who used their skills to smuggle drugs in the 70’s and 80’s, and the people who chased them. The series begins with the story of a pilot who had been a corrupt cop and helped build one of the largest aerial smuggling rings in the country.
On the night of September 10th, 1985, Drew Thornton strapped cocaine and weapons to his body, turned on the autopilot, and jumped to his death. His body was found the next morning in a driveway in Knoxville, TN, and his pilot less plane crashed in the mountains of NC.
It was a case that set in motion investigations and media coverage that exists to this day.
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