A light airplane over-burden with cocaine crashed on take-off on its approach to Australia, police said on Saturday, uncovering a Melbourne-based crime syndicate and prompting the arrest of five men with supposed connects to the Italian mafia.

The Cessna airplane, which was loaded down with in excess of 500 kilograms (1,100 pounds) of cocaine, went down while endeavoring to leave a distant airstrip in Papua New Guinea on July 26.

Australian Federal Police said in an explanation that “greed played a significant part in the syndicate’s activities” and included they “cannot rule out that the weight of the cocaine had an impact on the planes (sic) ability to take off.”

Five suspects were arrested in Queensland and Victoria as of late, and have been accused of contriving to import more than 500 kilograms of cocaine and various related offenses. They each face a most extreme sentence of life in jail whenever indicted. The pilot was additionally captured two days after the fact, in the wake of giving up himself to police.

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