The Nation - News from Oct. 7, 1985

Colombian drug smugglers sabotaged a plane that crashed, killing 16 skydivers and the pilot, because the plane’s owner botched the delivery of $591 million worth of cocaine, a drug agent told a newspaper. David L. Williams, who died when his plane crashed last week in Georgia, had safely parachuted 2 1/2 weeks before on the same flight with a parachutist who fell to his death here with 75 pounds of cocaine strapped to his chest, said the Knoxville, Tenn., News-Sentinel, which quoted an unidentified government drug agent.