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.