ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 322574
| Date: | Tuesday 10 August 2004 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Grumman HU-16A Albatross |
| Owner/operator: | Unknown |
| Registration: | XB-JHH |
| MSN: | G-32 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1950 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Playa de la Ventanilla -
 Mexico
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Illegal Flight |
| Departure airport: | |
A Grumman HU-16A Albatross, Mexican registration XB-JHH, was damaged in a forced landing at Playa de la Ventanilla, near Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico.
According to some sources, the plane was engaged in an illegal flight and was under pursuit by Mexican authorities. It seems that of the three persons on board, one was killed while the other two escaped.
The wreckage was still present on the location on the beach by 2016.
Sources:
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