Two foreign pilots, who claimed they were lost and in search of gold when they illegally landed at the Mahdia airstrip on Diwali evening, were on Friday sentenced to two years in jail and ordered to pay over $11 million in fines after they admitted to four charges.
Juan David Caicedo Villa, a 32-year-old pilot of Villavicencio, Colombia and Gustavo Adolfo Riascos Gomez, a 48-year-old pilot/businessman of Tachira San Cristobal, Venezuela, were yesterday arraigned before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in a city court.
