Date: | Tuesday 15 May 2018 |
Time: | 09:00 |
Type: | Cessna 208B Grand Caravan |
Owner/operator: | private |
Registration: | |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near Tuzantán -
Mexico
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Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Illegal Flight |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:All occupants were killed when their aircraft impacted terrain and burned on a wooded hillside in the Tuzantán municipality in Mexico.
A photo from the scene of the accident shows a burned wreck of an aircraft with a white tail fin, likely of a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan.
Local media state that the white coloured aircraft carried the registration mark N149CD. This number also belongs to a U.S. Cessna 208B, which has been seen active in California after the accident date.
A reasonable explanation could be that drug traffickers used an aircraft with a fake id, belonging to a similar model aircraft. There have been multiple similar cases in 2018.
In the remains of the aircraft at least eight drums were found with a capacity of 20 liters each.
Sources:
diariodelsur.com.mx Location
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