Aeroméxico Flight 111 was a scheduled commercial flight from Tijuana to Acapulco with stops in Mazatlán, Guadalajara, and Mexico City. On June 2, 1958, the

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operating the flight crashed near Guadalajara killing all 46 occupants.

Accident

The aircraft was a four-engine (four-propeller)

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with registration number XA-MEV, owned by Aeronaves de México, now

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. After taking off from

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at 21:53 local time, it crashed into Cerro Latillas, a hill in the municipality of

Tlajomulco de Zúñiga Tlajomulco de Zúñiga is the municipal seat and third most populous city in the municipality of the same name, located in the state of Jalisco in central-western Mexico. It forms part of the Guadalajara metropolitan area, lying to the southeast o ...

, at 22:06. The aircraft carried 39 passengers and seven crew members. All perished.

Passengers

The passengers included: * José Luis Arregui Zepeda, brother of civil engineer Felipe Arregui Zepeda, future builder of

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, financed by the Banco de Zamora and the Compañía General de Aceptaciones de Monterrey * Dionisio Fernández Sahagún, co-founder of the

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(UAG) and father of journalist José Antonio Fernández Salazar (1 February 1956 – 5 September 2018) * American

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Townsend Cromwell (

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, Massachusetts, 3 November 1922 –

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, 2 June 1958) * American Scientist

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(

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, Washington, 17 January 1922 – Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco, 2 June 1958). The last two were heading to

Acapulco Acapulco de Juárez (), commonly called Acapulco ( , ; ), is a city and Port of Acapulco, major seaport in the Political divisions of Mexico, state of Guerrero on the Pacific Coast of Mexico, south of Mexico City. Located on a deep, semicirc ...

to join a Scottish Expedition studying the currents of the Pacific Ocean, in connection with the International Geophysical Year 1957–1958. Pilot and co-pilot: Captains Alfonso Ceceña Gastélum and Roberto Herrera, respectively. At the crash site, there was looting by locals.

Causes

The weather conditions were adverse, with heavy rain, but the cause of the accident was mechanical failures of the four-engine aircraft.

References

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