After claims on social media that an aircraft suspected of carrying 100 U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents landed Wednesday at Thermal Airport, Fourth District Supervisor Manuel Perez dispelled the information Thursday as “unfounded.”
Perez said in a press release Thursday that after checking with the county’s Aviation Division and Desert Jet — an aviation business on-site — that the information was false.
Instead, two Department of Homeland Security aircrafts landed at Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport, at 56-850 Higgins Drive in Thermal, and carried only mechanics and flight crew personnel, with one plane set to leave at an unspecified time Thursday.
The information was crucial to “prevent unnecessary concern in the community,” Perez said.
Anyone with questions may contact Perez’s office at 760-863-8211.