CNN reports a light aircraft overloaded with cocaine crashed on take-off on its way to Australia.<br />Police say the crash exposed a Melbourne-based crime syndicate and led to the arrest of five men with alleged links to the Italian mafia.<br />The Cesna aircraft was stuffed with more than 1,100 pounds of cocaine. It went down while trying to leave Papua New Guinea on July 26.<br />Five suspects were arrested in Queensland and Victoria in recent days.<br />They've all been charged with conspiring to import over 500 kilograms of cocaine and a number of related offenses.
