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Flight 2431 was the link between Durango in the north of the country and Mexico City when it crashed on Tuesday. Most of the pbadengers had to be hospitalized for injuries, two of them in serious condition.
A hundred pbadengers on an Aeromexico flight survived the plane's take-off crash in northern Mexico on Tuesday, but most had to be hospitalized for injuries, two of them in serious condition. The Embraer 190 aircraft, which was operating between Durango in Durango State and Mexico City, crashed around 15:30 local time with 99 pbadengers on board – including 11 children – and 4 crew members. as he was taking off in the midst of a thunderstorm.
A gust of wind allegedly "pulled the plane down to the ground", one wing of which reportedly hit the runway, according to state governor Jose Aispuro. The engines would then have been torn off and the aircraft would have slipped 300 meters through a field, where it finally stopped before igniting. The activation of the toboggans would have allowed the evacuation of the pbadengers before the beginning of the fire.
The images of the civil protection diffused by the media show an airplane among the herbs, the cabin damaged, partially consumed by the flames . "There is no dead person," said Jose Aispuro. The accident, however, caused two serious injuries, including the pilot, who had to be operated on the spine. A little girl also suffers burns on 25% of the body, he told reporters. A total of 97 people were admitted to hospitals in the city, but the majority for "very light" injuries, according to the spokesman of the local civil protection, Alejandro Cardoza, and some have already been able to return to their homes. [19659005] HO / AFP
According to him, the aircraft was caught in a heavy hailstorm and the pilots attempted to make a forced landing. "The fire broke out after the crash landing," he said. An image taken with the aid of a drone and obtained by AFP shows the plane immobilized in a field at the end of the runway.
"I saw flames"
The general manager of Aeromexico Andres Conesa said at a press conference that the aircraft, commissioned in 2008, "was perfectly maintained" but did not give details about the circumstances of the accident. He thanked the crew "for their professionalism" and praised the attitude of the pbadengers, stating that all the medical expenses of the victims would be borne by the company. Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer, for its part, announced the dispatch of a team of technicians on site to investigate the accident.
"We were on the track when the visibility got darker," said Jacqueline Flores, 47, who was traveling with her 16-year-old daughter. The plane took off, then I felt he was starting 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. "The luggage was falling down the hallway (…) I started to smell smoke," says the woman, who was spending a holiday in Durango. "I immediately took off my belt and saw flames, you had to jump. There was a hole right next to us (…), the plane crashed, I told my daughter 'we have to jump over here and jump', "she continues. .
Aeromexico is one of the leading Mexican companies, a founding member of Skyteam, alongside Air France. In July 1981, a company flight crashed on landing in Chihuahua (north) due to bad weather, leaving 32 dead.
