Date: | Thursday 15 March 1984 |
Time: | |
Type: | Convair VT-29B (CV-240) |
Owner/operator: | Aero Cozumel |
Registration: | XA-JOV |
MSN: | 261 |
Year of manufacture: | 1952 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Cancún Airport (CUN) -
Mexico
|
Phase: | Initial climb |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Cancún Airport (CUN/MMUN) |
Destination airport: | Cozumel Airport (CZM/MMCZ) |
Narrative:The airplane experience a left hand engine failure immediately after takeoff. The airplane crash-landed in a swamp. One of the passengers died of a heart attack while moving through the swamp.
Sources:
World Directory of Airliner Crashes
Location
Images:
photo (c) L. Nolle; near Cancun Airport (CUN); 15 March 1984
photo (c) L. Nolle; near Cancun Airport (CUN); 15 March 1984
photo (c) L. Nolle; near Cancun Airport (CUN); 15 March 1984
photo (c) L. Nolle; near Cancun Airport (CUN); 15 March 1984
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