20 minutes – 101 people survive an accident in Mexico



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In northern Mexico, a plane of a hundred people crashed on board. The accident near the state airport of Guadalupe Victoria in the state of Durango killed Tuesday 85 people

According to authorities, Tuesday's incident in Durango no No casualties, but several wounded. The Aeroméxico airline was en route from Guadalupe Victoria International Airport to Mexico City. The accident occurred around 4 pm (local time, 11 am CEST).

According to Durango governor José Rosasa Aispuro, the pilot probably had to stop the race because of bad weather. "It was raining, there was a storm, I think they wanted to break," said Aispuro on Mexican television

Some Serious Injuries

On board the ship. Embraer ERJ-190 Brazilian-type, according to eyewitnesses, there was a fire broke out. However, it was not clear whether the flames on board the AM2431 flight were also a reason for the accidental landing or only burst when the machine was already in a field near the open airport.

The Minister of Transport of Mexico, Gerardo Ruiz Esparza, said on Twitter that there were 97 passengers and four crew members in the plane. According to the Ministry of Health, at least 18 of them were taken to the hospital wounded. Some people are seriously injured.

Smoke clouds formed at the scene of the accident. Photos of the civil defense showed a machine burned.

He hopes that the crew and the passengers will be well, wrote the President of Latin America Enrique Peña Nieto on Twitter. The authorities, the civil defense and the military were charged with cooperating.

According to the airline, the machine had a capacity of 100 seats for passengers. That they were all occupied, Aeroméxico did not announce initially

(chk / sda)

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