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4 Young People Die in Field in Mexico

What: Piper PA-28-140 Cherokee
Where: Jesus Ernesto Lozano Airport Chihuahua Mexico
When: Sept 29, 2011
Who: 4 aboard, 4 fatalities
Why: Four people were killed in a plane that crashed in Valle de Allende. The passengers were found beside the plane. The front of the plane was gone.

Valles Alejandro Medrano, 23, student
Jasmine Meza Gabriela Nuñez, 20, student
Marcos Moreno Angel Carrillo, 23, farmer
Gabriel Edgar Campos Abes, 24 pilot

They were from Jimenez, and two were students of Centro Cultural Universitario.

They crashed on land belonging to Capitán Ernesto Lozano, who heard the crash, and arrived in time to find two dead passengers, and two dying.

The cause of the accident is unknown. Investigators were called about the crash at 10:15 Sept 29, 2011

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