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The investigation into the accident was carried out by the Mexican Directorate General of Civil Aeronautics (DGAC). Since the United States was the state of manufacture and registry of the aircraft, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) sent an accredited representative to assist with the inquiry.
The crash occurred at 18:45 in the middle of rush-hour traffic of the Las Lomas business district, [7] causing an explosion whose flames "reached higher than the buildings". [8] According to Secretary of Communications and Transport Luis Téllez, there were no survivors. [9] Téllez also stated that the crash appeared to be an accident. [10]
The crash was the subject of a Discovery Channel television series Curiosity 2-hour episode "Plane Crash". [14] [15] The episode was aired on 7 October 2012, and narrated by Josh Charles. [15] [16] The 1-hour-35-minute episode "The Plane Crash" aired on Channel 4 in Britain on 11 October 2012.
Aeroméxico Flight 498 was a scheduled commercial flight from Mexico City, Mexico, to Los Angeles, California, United States, with several intermediate stops.On Sunday, August 31, 1986, the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 operating the flight was clipped in the tail section by N4891F, a Piper PA-28-181 Cherokee owned by the Kramer family, and crashed into the Los Angeles suburb of Cerritos, killing all ...
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Even though the plane was already over international waters off the U.S. East Coast by then, the captain decided to return to Toronto. Due to the bomb threat, North American Air Defense Command assigned two Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 fighter jets to escort the plane back to Pearson Airport once it re-entered
Members of the Mexican Navy stand guard next to packages on display after seizing 7.2 tons of drugs that were intercepted during operations in the Pacific Ocean off Manzanillo, Mexico, in this ...