Date: | Wednesday 14 September 1966 |
Time: | |
Type: | Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon |
Owner/operator: | Unknown |
Registration: | XA-NIM ? |
MSN: | 15-1254 |
Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 4 km SW of Acapulco Airport (ACA) -
Mexico
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | Acapulco-Alvarez International Airport (ACA/MMAA) |
Narrative:Crashed into Laguna de Tres Palos during a night-time approach to Acapulco Airport. WWII veteran pilot General Radamés Gaxiola Andrade, his copilot and all six passengers were killed.
The aircraft was reported as XB-NEM, a Lockheed twin by contemporary Mexican newspapers. The Lockheed Twins production list by P.J. Marsden does not list this registration. However, a similar registration (XA-NIM) belonged to another Lockheed twin (Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon). This registration was cancelled from the Mexican register in October 1969.
Sources:
El Tiempo 16 September 1966, p1+11
El Siglo de Torreón 16 September 1966, p1+7
El Informador 16 September 1966, p1+3 /21 September 1966, p8A
The Lockheed Twins / P.J. Marsden
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