A police helicopter crashed in the hills near Mexicali, in the state of Baja California, Mexico, on March 14th.
The state police helicopter was on a mission to recover the body of a female hiker when it got tangled in power cables and went down.
Four people were killed in the crash, including the pilot and the co-pilot.
American Airlines flight AA-1343 had to return and make an emergency landing in Cancun, Mexico, on February 20th.
The Airbus A321-200 plane took off for Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Texas, but had to return shortly afterwards due to an issue with the flaps.
The plane landed back safely. There were 185 people aboard at the time; all of them remained unharmed.
Delta Airlines flight DL-363 had to divert and make an emergency landing in Tampico, Mexico, on February 2nd.
The Boeing 737-800 plane heading from Atlanta, Georgia, to Mexico City, Mexico, was diverted after the crew needed to shut down one of the engines.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
Aeromexico Connect flight AM-231 had to make an emergency landing in Mexico City, Mexico, on November 6th.
The Embraer ERJ-190 plane was flying from Torreon, Mexico, when a snake was spotted in the cabin, prompting the crew to declare an emergency.
The plane landed uneventfully. All passengers and crew members remained safe.
The incident is being investigated.
AeroUnion flight 6R-300 had to return and make an emergency landing in Mexico City, Mexico, on October 27th.
The plane took off for Guadalajara, Mexico, but had to return shortly afterwards after the crew reported repeated surges in left engine along with streaks of flames and loud bangs.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
Volaris Airlines flight Y4-739 made an emergency landing in Guadalajara, Mexico, on October 11th.
The Airbus A320-200 plane departed for Mexico City, Mexico, but had to turn back after the crew reported control problems.
The plane landed at higher than normal speed. Everyone aboard remained safe.
A small plane crashed shortly after taking off from Grants-Milan Municipal Airport, Grants, Cibola County, New Mexico, on the evening of September 26th.
The Piper PA-32R-300, carrying 2 passengers and the pilot, had its engine sputtering before it went down.
All three people miraculously survived the crash with no injuries whereas the plane burst into flames.
The crash remains under investigation.
Aeromexico flight AM-421 had to reject takeoff at a high speed at Mexico City International Airport, Mexico City, Mexico, on July 13th.
The Boeing 737-700 was accelerating to takeoff for Merida, Mexico, when the crew saw another aircraft on the runway, prompting the plane to stop.
The aircraft braked heavily. All people onboard remained unharmed.
The incident remians under investigation.
AeroMéxico flight 3351 had to return and make an emergency landing at Mexico City International Airport, Mexico, on December 23.
The plane took off for Cancún, Mexico, but had to return shortly afterwards after a portion of right engine cover became detached.
The plane landed uneventfully. No injuries were reported.
A Magnicharters airlines jet crash-landed at Mexico City International Airport in Mexico, on November 26.
The Boeing 737 plane was coming from the Caribbean coast resort of Cancun when its landing gear partially collapsed upon landing.
There were 139 passengers and 5 crew members aboard at the time; none of them were injured. Authorities said some of the passengers were treated for “nervous crisis.”
A state helicopter crashed in a rural area of Veracruz, Mexico, on October 6.
Authorities said the Bell 430 went down near El Lencero airport, Xalapa.
There were 2 people aboard the aircraft at the time; both of them were killed. They were identified as Capt. David Barrera and Capt. Fausto Calderon.
The cause of crash is being investigated.
A single- engine plane crashed and caught fire close to a toll road in Matamoros, Coahuila, Mexico on the evening of July 9.
The Cessna 206 was heading towards Torreon, Mexico, from McAllen Airport in Texas, at the time.
The accident took lives of all 3 people aboard; they were identified as Abraham Garcia, the pilot, Rogelio Fuentes, the co-pilot, and Aurelliano Castro, the passenger.
The reason of crash is under investigation.
An Aeronaves turboprop took off from Querétaro Airport, and impacted beside Highway 57 (Querétaro-Mexico City) then burst into flame.
The Aeronaves TSM plane was on a post-maintenance test flight, with four (or five) aboard. The accident occurred about 11 km southwest of the airport. Firefighters, federal police and a Mexican army team rushed to the scene. The accident had no survivors.
It is not known what went wrong on the Swearingen SA226-TC Metro II that caused the crash.
Flight registration number was XA-UKP.
*The number of people reported aboard varies.
An Augusta A109S Grand helicopter, belonging to the government of the state Mexico, crashed just 5 miles off the Toluca airport near Lerma, Mexico, on September 2.
The helicopter, which was on its way from the Mexico City area to Toluca, was first reported missing at around 6:25 p.m. The rescue teams located the wreckage after about 2 hours.
Both the people aboard the helicopter died on the spot. The victims were identified as the pilot, Romel Portillo Cervio and the co-pilot, Gerardo Avalos Garcia.
Gov. Eruviel Avila Villegas, extended his deep condolences to the families of the deceased. He also said that the state authorities and the Civil Aviation Directorate will jointly work to determine the cause of accident.
On July 10, a Cessna 206 en route from Tamaulipas to Veracruz with seven aboard crashed in eastern Mexico has killed four people and injured two. The fall of the plane did not affect the residents of the town. No cause has been reported for the plane failure.
The pilot reported engine failure at 22:18 to Veracruz ATC around the time the plane disappeared from radar..
The wreckage is being recovered at Rancho Coralillos in the town of Alto Lucero. The remains of four people were found aboard the plane. (Number varies.) Two injured have been named as Sergio Rage Marrón and Jorge Arturo Velázquez Amorringa.
The number of fatalities has been raised to five. The bodies inside the plane were burned, and difficult to identify.
The injured were taken to a private hospital in Veracruz.
The passengers had been going to a sport fishing competition.
The Secretary of Civil Protection and the Municipal Civil Protection and a navy Mi17 helicopter responded to the scene.
A British Aerospace corporate jet operated by Líneas Aéreas Comerciales was on landing approach (Coumel Airport to Saltillo-Plan de Guadalupe International) when it was in an accident in Ramos Arzipe Mexico.
The plane which was on a domestic in-Mexico flight, was destroyed, killing all eight aboard.
The airplane crashed into an industrial park near Saltillo-Plan de Guadalupe International Airport in conditions of low visibility. It was foggy at 299 feet.
The DJ Antonio Dávila Campos died in the crash, as well as his wife and son, Irma Lopez Coss; his son Alejandro Dávila López, 10, the pilot Alfonso Andrés Remond Ebergenyi, copilot, Israel Cabrera Hernández, 33; Marta Elena de Loera; her husband Daniel Loera and Paulina Fascio, private secretary of Lourdes Naranjo, wife of Isidro Lopez Villarreal, Mayor of Saltillo.
The parties were returning from a Cozumel vacation on a jet belonging to businessman Armando Guadiana.
Minutes after the crash, rescue services responded to the scene at intersection of Industrial Automotive and Industrial Metalworking Industrial Park.
The plane exploded on impact with the ground and caught power poles afire, but the fire was quickly contained by the fast response of firefighters. Everyone aboard died on impact. The black box was recovered .
The Metars were:
MMIO 200040Z 03008KT 1/2SM FG OVC002 15/11 A3017 RMK 8/7//
Which translates to:
Location: MMIO
Day of month: 20
Time: 00:40 UTC
Wind: True direction = 030 degrees, Speed: 8 knots
Visibility: 1/2 Statute Miles
Weather: Fog
Clouds: Overcast sky , at 200 feet above aerodrome level
Temperature: 15 degrees Celsius
Dewpoint: 11 degrees Celsius
QNH: 30.17 inHg
A small patrol naval aircraft based at the Mexican Naval Air Station in the Gulf coast port of Tampico crashed at 7 p.m. on April 10 in the northeastern border state of Tamaulipas, Mexico.
Mexico’s navy department said that the Lancair plane was on a reconnaissance mission. Two military personnel, including the pilot and an observer were killed in the accident. The plane sent distress signals but crashed a few minutes later. The naval authorities sent their condolences to the families of the dead.
The Tamaulipas area, which borders Texas, is currently facing clashes between rival criminal outfits. The area has seen dozens of violent deaths in the last few days.
Even though Rivera had filed for divorce, the widower of Jenni Rivera, Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Esteban Loaiza, is suing the owners of the Learjet that crashed on Dec. 9, 2012, killing the Mexican-American “Diva de la Banda” and six others. The wrongful death lawsuit in in Los Angeles Superior Court claims that the 78-year-old pilot and the co-pilot weren’t licensed to fly paying passengers.Also, the 43 year old jet flew unevenly and trembled when it hit cruising speed.
The families of four of the others, Rivera’s deceased publicist, makeup artist, hairstylist and attorney filed a wrongful death lawsuit in January 2013.
The pilot exceeded the age limit for the kind of license he obtained from Mexico, a fact for which Mexico’s civil aviation holds Mexico accountable. The pilot and co-pilot also died in the crash.
The plane’s owners were Starwood Management LLC and its parent company, Rodatz Financial Group.
The plane took off from Monterey and crashed within fifteen minutes.
Monday, a pilot and passenger were killed after the Mexican plane took off from Nuevo Leon and crashed in Veracruz.
On Tuesday, a Cessna took off from Mina International and crashed in Tampico, Tamaulipas, killing the pilot and passenger.
Also on Tuesday, a jet en route to Cozumel crashed in the Atlantic. All four of those aboard were recovered three miles northwest of Fort Lauderdale.
Initially, in two days there were three crashes, four fatalities and four missing. However two bodies have been found—pilot Josué Buendía Moreno and nurse Mariana González Isunza,—bringing the total dead to 6. Two Mexican men—pilot Hiram Galván de la O and Doctor Fernando Senties Nieto—are still missing off the coast of Fort Lauderdale. The search of the 4,000 square miles debris field has been called off. Over 1000 lbs of wreckage has been recovered.
The pilot and thirteen passengers of a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan took off on Monday from Loreto to Ciudad Constitución Airport but lost contact with air traffic control after takeoff, and subsequently all died in a crash in the Sierra de La Giganta mountains. Their deaths were confirmed when the wreckage was located on October 16.
The Aereo Service Guerrero Cessna Grand Caravan had a license plate XA-TXM.
Passenger list
Eleazar Inzunza,
Esther Cota,
Evelia López López,
Israel Merino Parra,
Reyes Moreno Gastelum,
Joan Efrain Moreno Medrano,
Arturo Pérez Inzunza,
Alejandro Rosas,
Andrea Rosas,
Marco Rosas,
Ramona González Armenta,
Rosy Ornelas,
Carmen Rojas López,
Jesús Antonio Cárdenas Torre,
José Manuel Duarte
On an October 30, 2013 training flight, a Centro de Capacitacion Aereo Michoacan Cessna 152 out of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla International Airport lost power over Cajititian lake.
The pilot made a crash landing beside the lake. The pilot Andres Gonzalez, 20, tried to land in an unpopulated area when the plane developed a mechanical problem in the engine.
Emergency responders included firefighters and paramedics from Tiajomulco and El Salto. Gonzalez suffered only minor injuries.
la Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil (Civil Aviation Directorate) will be investigating the incident in Cajititlán, Jalisco, Mexico.
On Nov 14, 2013, an Aereo Services Guerrero Cessna 208B Grand Caravan en route from Loreto to Ciudad Constitucion was lost en route. All attempts to contact the plane from ATC failed.
Locals reported seeing the plane flying low in Tembabichi. Search perimeters were extablished but Tropical Storm Octave with 50 mph winds interfered with the flight as well as the search.
The wreckage was found at Agua Verde and Tembabichi area, Baja California Sur.
The wreckage was found on Oct 17, 2013, with fourteen passengers were aboard, all fatalities.
A privately owned Cessna 210 flew from Culiacan to La Noria; then an hour after leaving La Noria, the Cessna crashed in Sinaloa Mexico in a field and burst into flames.
Pilot Aaron Meza Martin del Campo, 21, and co-pilot Fortunato Ramirez Perez, 25 and two unidentified women died in the crash.
The accident is under investigation. THe cause may have been pilot error.
The Mexican Attorney General’s Beechcraft 300 Super King Air took off from MMZC Aeropuerto Internacional de Zacatecas (Calera) to serve an arrest warrant on members of a drug cartel but this party never achieved their objective.
Presumably due to a mechanical failure, the plane lost altitude–for no apparent reason–and crashed five minutes after takeoff and fifteen kilometers from the airport in farmland.
The plane had been scheduled to take off the night before, but mechanical problems delayed the flight.
The six aboard–including a federal prosecutor and two federal ministerial police–died on impact at Noria de los Gringos, Zacatecas. The plane smashed up, and caught fire in the grassy field.
Law enforcement arrived quickly to secure the scene but it was too late for the passengers.
List of casualties
The cause of the crash in Zacatecas is under investigation.
An Oaxaca State Government McDonnell Douglas MD 600N was en route from Hospital Regional de Putla Villa de Guerrero, Oaxaca, Mexico to Hospital General de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico when it crashed with four people aboard.
The crash was located five miles from Oaxaca. The preliminary report lists Captain Guillermo Chavez Medina, the aeromedical Paul Hector Vicente, less than 24 hours old surname Martinez Sanchez (patient) and the latter’s father, Pedro Martinez, approximately 20 years old.
The Medevac helicopter/air ambulance was transporting the infant who was less than 24 hours old.
Bad weather or mechanical failure may have been behind the crash in Guerrero Cuilapan.
Emergency services have cordoned off the area prior to investigation.
