Aeronaves de México Flight 111
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| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | 2 June 1958 |
| Summary | Mechanical failures[1] |
| Site | Cerro Latillas, west of Guadalajara International Airport, in the Municipality of Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco, Mexico 20°29′21″N 103°28′05″W / 20.48917°N 103.46806°W |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Lockheed Constellation L-749 |
| Operator | Aeronaves de México |
| Registration | XA-MEV |
| Flight origin | Guadalajara International Airport, Mexico |
| Destination | Mexico City International Airport, Mexico City |
| Occupants | 46 |
| Passengers | 39 |
| Crew | 7 |
| Fatalities | 46 |
| Injuries | 0 |
| Survivors | 0 |
Aeroméxico Flight 111, on June 2, 1958, was a commercial flight with the route Tijuana–Mazatlán–Guadalajara–Mexico City–Acapulco, was an aviation accident that happened in Mexico which resulted in the death of its 46 occupants. The aircraft involved was a Lockheed Constellation L-749,[2] which, after taking off from Guadalajara International Airport at 21:53 local time, crashed into Cerro Latillas, a hill in the municipality of Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, at 22:06.[3]
Accident
[edit]The four-engine (four-propeller) Lockheed Constellation with registration number XA-MEV, owned by Aeronaves de México, now Aeroméxico, had planned one more stop, in Mexico City, before heading to its final destination: Acapulco International Airport, in the state of Guerrero.
The aircraft, upon resuming its flight in Guadalajara, carried 39 passengers and seven crew members. All perished.
Passengers
[edit]The 16 passengers who boarded the aircraft in Guadalajara were:
- José María Sainz Aldrete (edible oils industrialist)
- José Luis Arregui Zepeda, brother of civil engineer Felipe Arregui Zepeda, future builder of Estadio Jalisco,[4] financed by the Banco de Zamora and the Compañía General de Aceptaciones de Monterrey
- Dionisio Fernández Sahagún, co-founder of the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara (UAG)[5][6] and father of journalist José Antonio Fernández Salazar (1 February 1956 – 5 September 2018)
- Raúl Velasco Reyes
- José Manuel Ramos Flores
- Guillermo Álvarez Ochoa
- Magdalena de la Peña
- Raúl González
- Luis Chávez
- Luisa A. de Chávez
- María P. widow of Flores
- Eva Guadalupe Ramos López
- Óscar de la Mora
- Jorge Lima
- Gustavo Verdeja
- Agustín González.[7][1]
Boarded in Tijuana:
- Teresa Rocha Salas
- Guadalupe Chávez
- Jaime Guarro
- Luis Concories
- Gail Tering
- Michel Torse
- E. Werner
- Alfredo Gayou
- Leonora Lipghutz
- John T. Griffith
- Gladys Ernie Kelly
- Gladdy Irano
- Jack Overtton
- Vicente Benítez
- Gloria Zúñiga
- Sergio Muñiz
- Carlos Vázquez H.
- Corinne Morison
- Andrey Smith
- American Oceanographer Townsend Cromwell (Boston, Massachusetts, 3 November 1922 – Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco, 2 June 1958)
- American Scientist Bell M. Shimada (Seattle, Washington, 17 January 1922 – Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco, 2 June 1958). The last two were heading to Acapulco 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.[2]
Causes
[edit]The weather conditions were adverse, with heavy rain, but the cause of the accident was mechanical failures of the four-engine aircraft.[7]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "IN MEMORIAM: 2 de junio de 1958: "La peor tragedia de la aviación nacional"". El Informador. 29 May 2008. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ^ a b Arenas Inda, Elsa (27 August 2017). "Cayó un avión en Tlajomulco, fallecieron 42 adultos y 2 niños". El Occidental. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ^ "El Constellation, vuelo 111 con destino a Acapulco". El Informador. 31 May 2008. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ^ Karelia Alba (20 December 2008). "El personaje: un ingeniero civil que ha marcado la ciudad". El Informador. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ^ "La UAG cumple 87 años". 3 March 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ^ "Detalle del centro Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara (UAG)". Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ^ a b "El trágico avión era ya muy viejo y había sido reformado. Ir al sitio web indicado, dar clic en las palabras naranja "Navegación Directa", aprobar el examen Captcha "No soy robot", seleccionar año 1958, seleccionar mes 06, seleccionar día 04, seleccionar página 1". El Informador. 4 June 1958. Retrieved 31 March 2022.