MEXICO CITY — Three small planes flying in or headed to Mexico
have crashed in two days, leaving at least six people dead and two
missing.
A Mexican-registered Cessna 150 crashed Tuesday afternoon shortly
after takeoff from Mina International Airport in the Gulf coast city of
Tampico in northeastern Tamaulipas state. The pilot and passenger were
killed, authorities said.
Later in the day, a Learjet that left the airport in Fort Lauderdale,
Florida, for Cozumel, Mexico, plunged into the Atlantic with four
people aboard, a U.S. official said.
The Learjet 35, with a Mexican registration, went down in the sea
after taking off from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport,
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said in an
email.
The Coast Guard said in a news release late Tuesday that search crews
had found the wreckage about 2 miles (about 3 kilometers) northeast of
the airport. It said two deaths were confirmed and a search continued
for the two others who were aboard the plane.
On Monday, the pilot and a passenger were killed in the crash of a
small plane in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz. The Civil Aviation
Office said the Mexican-registered plane took off from the northern
state of Nuevo Leon and crashed in the mountains of Veracruz, just short
of its intended destination, the Veracruz state capital of Xalapa.
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