MEXICO CITY, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- The Mexican army seized a 1.3 tons of cocaine from a plane that landed at the airport in Palenque, a small town in Mexico's southeast Chiapas state, the Ministry of National Defense said on Monday.
The seizure was carried out on Saturday after authorities began monitoring the flight of the aircraft, which lost its way while trying to land near Chiapas' border with neighboring Guatemala.
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