Aeromexico plane involved in an 'accident' in Mexico, airline says

WABC ^ | July 31, 2018 | JULIA JACOBO

[rdl6989]

An accident has occurred aboard a Aeromexico flight in Mexico, according to the airline.

Aeromexico wrote on Twitter Wednesday just after 5 p.m. ET that it was aware of an "accident" in the northwest Mexican state of Durango. Flight #2431 was involved in the accident, according to the airline.

The type of plane used on flight #2431 -- the Embraer 190 -- has a capacity of about 100 passengers, the airline wrote on Twitter.

[rdl6989]

Embraer 190

[thesharkboy]

Durango-Mexico City. The CNN Spanish video says that it “fell” from the sky. My Spanish isn’t very good, but I got that much.

[rdl6989]

Thanks, I’m afraid this is going to be bad.

[rdl6989]

101 people on board.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6012875/Aeromexico-plane-crashes-flames-near-airport-runway.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline

[mewzilla]

It’s crashed.

https://www.proceso.com.mx/545148/se-desploma-avion-de-aeromexico-en-durango-con-101-personas-a-bordo-videos

[Lonely Bull]

Other pages are now reporting a “crash.”

[PLMerite]

Looks survivable, but maybe not by everyone.

[Truth29]

Better pictures and an estimate of injured: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6910686/mexico-plane-crash-80-injured-after-aeromexico-flight-crashes-five-minutes-after-taking-off-from-guadalupe-victoria-international-airport/

[fhayek]

yeah, “incident” has been downgraded. It’s a crash. God help the survivors and family members...

[Moonman62]

Looks close to the airport and the runway is wet. My guess is it ran off the runway. I hope the people got off before it caught fire.

[DAC21]

Looks like the plane is more or less in one piece. The Pilots must have had some control. Looks like possibly some might have been able to survive.

[rdl6989]

Thanks.

[Gay State Conservative]

I've flown some funky airlines in my day including Air Tanzania and Air Malawi...but I've never flown AeroMexico.

And I never,ever, will.

[mewzilla]

Per my above link, reporting is the plane crashed right after take off, so it still had a full load of fuel. The fire looks like it was pretty bad.

[rdl6989]

Per Fox News on tv the governor of Durango believes there were no fatalities.

[Rebelbase]

Per the governor of Durango there are no deaths.—fox news live

[PAR35]

They are mentioning in one report that survivors walked to the highway.

It does look like no one opened the right rear door. Because of the fire damage, I can’t tell if the overwing window(only one window exit on each side) was open or the right front door.

[mewzilla]

Wow. Here’s hoping he’s right.

[DAC21]

Flew on this model plane from Ontario CA to Texas a few years back. 2/2 Seating. It was my buddies first ever flight at age 38. He was $hitting bricks. Especially when I needled him on take off that we we're running out of runway....this bird should be off the ground by now.