Casket of beloved Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins is seen leaving Bogota

The body of Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins was flown home to his devastated loved ones today as Colombian authorities continued to probe the legendary rocker’s suspected overdose.

Exclusive DailyMail.com images captured a plain, black casket containing the musician’s remains being loaded onto the band’s tour plane after it flew from LA to Bogota to collect him.

The chartered 757 jet took off from El Dorado Airport just after 2pm local time on Tuesday and was due back in LAX around 7:30pm pacific.

DailyMail.com has learned that the Foo Fighters’ heartbroken tour manager Gus Brandt stayed on in Colombia after Dave Grohl and the rest of the band flew home Saturday, a day after Hawkins, 50, was found dead in his room at the plush Four Seasons Casa Medina.

Exclusive DailyMail.com images captured a plain, black casket containing the  remains of Taylor Hawkins being loaded onto the band’s tour plane after it flew from LA to Bogota to collect him

DailyMail.com has learned that the Foo Fighters’ heartbroken tour manager Gus Brandt stayed on in Colombia after Dave Grohl and the rest of the band flew home Saturday, a day after Hawkins, 50, was found dead in his room at the plush Four Seasons Casa Medina

The chartered 757 jet took off from El Dorado Airport just after 2pm local time on Tuesday and was due back in LAX around 7:30pm pacific

The casket containing Hawkins’ body was loaded onto the Foo Fighters’ private tour jet in Bogota, Colombia, to repatriate his remains to Los Angeles. A funeral van believed to be carrying the body of Taylor Hawkins arrives at the cargo area of the airport shortly before the plane departed

Hawkins, 50, was found dead in his room at the plush Four Seasons Casa Medina

Officials from the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Science released Hawkins’ body to Brandt on Sunday afternoon after completing an extensive autopsy which is expected to confirm that the star’s heart gave way after a huge drugs binge.

A local undertaker stored the remains before they were loaded onto a van Tuesday afternoon and driven into a cargo terminal at the city’s international airport, where the private jet was waiting on the tarmac, having flown in early in the morning.

Brandt declined to comment when reached by phone but sources at Colombia’s Civil Aviation Authority confirmed that Hawkins’ body was on board the airliner as it took off at 2:09pm local time.

Initial results released by the Colombian Attorney General’s Office over the weekend reported ten different drugs in the rock icon’s urine, including opioids, marijuana and benzodiazepines, a class of psychoactive drugs used to combat anxiety and insomnia.

Hawkins’ heart also weighed at least 600 grams, double that of a typical man of his age, according to the early findings reported by Colombian weekly magazine, Semana.

Taylor Hawkins of Foo Fighters performs onstage at the after party for the Los Angeles premiere of ‘Studio 666’ at the Fonda Theatre on February 16, 2022 in Hollywood, California

Hawkins’ last performance was at Lollapalooza 2022 in Santiago, Chile on March 18 (above). The Foo Fighters were scheduled to play another Lollapalooza in Brazil on Sunday 

A spokeswoman for the Attorney General’s Office told DailyMail.com that any further update would take at least another week.

Concerns about the drummer’s health first arose on Friday night when he began complaining of chest pains prior to a sell-out gig in Bogota.

Hotel staff called emergency services but Hawkins was unresponsive by the time security reached his room. Efforts to revive him by a private doctor and city emergency responders failed.

Well-known Colombian journalist Luis Carlos Velez, the director of a Bogota radio station, reported that a police officer who entered Hawkins’ $500-per-night suite had told prosecutors he saw a ‘cocaine-like’ white powder.

Another unconfirmed local report said several glasses were found inside the drummer’s room, sparking speculation he had been entertaining guests.

Taylor Hawkins (left), daughter Annabelle Hawkins (center) and wife Alison Hawkins (right) pictured together at the Los Angeles Premiere of Studio 666 last month

An emotional Dave Grohl sobbed as he hugged his band mates and friends at LAX on Saturday night, a day after the shocking death of his best friend 

DailyMail.com understands the inquiry into Hawkins’ death was handed over to the Attorney General’s Office as soon as cops learnt he was a ‘high-profile’ American citizen.

The probe is expected to focus on which substances found in his body were prescription medications he had taken prior to landing in Bogota last Wednesday – and which were illegal drugs he might have consumed once he got to the famed ‘cocaine capital’.

‘Colombia’s Attorney General’s Office can confirm the following after the initial autopsy on the body of Taylor Hawkins,’ the…