ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 330165
Date: | Wednesday 20 June 1973 |
Time: | 22:47 |
Type: | McDonnell Douglas DC-9-15 |
Owner/operator: | Aeroméxico |
Registration: | XA-SOC |
MSN: | 47100/153 |
Year of manufacture: | 1967 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7A |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 27 / Occupants: 27 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 32 km SSE of Puerto Vallarta Airport (PVR) -
Mexico
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Monterrey-General Mariano Escobedo Airport (MTY/MMMY) |
Destination airport: | Puerto Vallarta Airport (PVR/MMPR) |
Narrative:A McDonnell Douglas DC-9-15 passenger plane was destroyed when it crashed on approach to Puerto Vallarta Airport (PVR), Mexico. All 27 on board were killed.
Aeroméxico flight 229 operated departed from Houston-Intercontinental Airport, TX (IAH) on a regular service to Mexico City (MEX) with en route stops at Monterrey and Puerto Vallarta. The airplane flew into the side of Las Minas Mountain while approaching runway 04.
Sources:
El Informador
Location
Images:
photo (c) H.I. Straw; Mazatlan Airport (MZT); October 1971
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