An American Airlines mechanic was convicted of trying to smuggle $320,000 worth of cocaine by hiding it under the cockpit of a plane

• An American Airlines mechanic was convicted of smuggling cocaine, prosecutors said Tuesday. 
• Paul Belloisi kept 10 bricks of cocaine in a compartment underneath the plane's cockpit, they said. 
• The drugs were worth as much as $320,000, they added. Belloisi faces up to 20 years in prison.

An American Airlines mechanic was found guilty of trying to smuggle more than $300,000 worth of cocaine by stashing it in a hidden compartment in a plane's cockpit, prosecutors said in a press release on Tuesday.