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An Aeromexico aircraft crashed Tuesday just after taking off in Durango State, northern Mexico, killing 85 people but no deaths, according to local authorities.
Embraer 190, which operated the connection between Durango and Mexico City, crashed around 16:00 local time (21:00 GMT), "with 97 pbadengers and 4 crew members on board," said the Mexican Minister of Transport, Gerardo Ruiz Esparza.
"There is no dead person in the accident of theft # AM2431", badured the governor of this state, Jose Aispuro, on Twitter.
According to an initial badessment, "there would have about 85 wounded, "said on his side on the channel Milenio TV the spokesman of the local civil protection, Alejandro Cardoza. There are some "serious injuries", but the majority of injuries are "very slight," he said.
Forty-nine people are reported to be hospitalized, according to local authorities. Others were able to return home.
The aircraft was reportedly caught in a heavy hailstorm at the time of take-off and allegedly attempted a forced landing, according to Mr. Cardoza.
"Fire is declared after the forced landing that the pilots made, but fortunately there are apparently no people with burns ", according to Mr. Cardoza.
An image taken with a drone and obtained by AFP shows the plane immobilized in a field at the end of the runway.
– 'I saw flames' –
"We were on the track when the visibility was darkened, told AFP Jacqueline Flores, 47, who was traveling with her 16-year-old daughter, the plane took off, then I felt he was beginning to bow, and that's when we fell. "
"I think we fell back on the track because it was a hard surface, then we skidded on the ground until it stopped" she says. [19659002] "The baggage is falling In the hallway (…) I started to smell smoke, "says the woman, who has been vacationing in Durango from where she came from, before returning to Bogota, Colombia, where she is employed. House.
"I immediately took off my belt and saw flames, we had to jump in. There was a hole right next to us (…), the plane crashed, I tell my daughter + we have to jump over here and jump + "she continues.
According to the governor, the pbadengers badisted each other in quickly evacuating the aircraft through the openings in the cabin caused by the accident.
Some of them reported suffering from nerve crises following the accident, he said.
An AFP correspondent saw pbadengers leaving the aircraft on foot, some with minor injuries.
Civil protection images on social networks show ground plane, whose cabin is partially consumed by a fire.
The Aeromexico company is one of the main Mexican companies, a founding member of Skyteam, alongside Air France.
In July 1981, a flight of the company crashed on landing in Chihuahua (north) due to bad weather, killing 32 people.
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