A small plane carrying more than a ton of cocaine crashed into the Caribbean Sea after leaving Venezuela Wednesday as it was pursued by Colombia’s air force. Photo/Video: Fuerza Aérea Colombiana

EXTRAORDINARY footage shows a plane carrying more than a ton of cocaine crashing into the Caribbean after being intercepted by a Colombian air force plane.

The small plane was en route from Venezuela when the drug run was foiled, but Venezuelan and Colombian authorities are fighting over who is responsible for the sting and exactly how it took place.

Video released by the air force shows how fighter jets intercepted the Hawker 800 aircraft after it entered Colombia’s air space in Wednesday and ordered it to descend. After the pilot moved to escape, one of the plane’s motors apparently failed and the aircraft crashed off the coast of Puerto Colombia.

Colombia’s coast guard says the body of the pilot, whose nationality was unknown, was found among the wreckage along with 1.2 metric tons of cocaine.

Venezuela has become a key transit country for narcotics. Much of the cocaine moves north to Central America on a dog-legged path to avoid entering Colombian airspace.