Admin l Wednesday, July 2018
MEXICO – An Aeroméxico flight AM2431 which took off from Guadalupe Victoria International Airport in Durango on the way to Mexico City has crash-landed. All the 103 passengers on board survived the crash but 97 of them are injured and now being treated in a nearby hospital, the BBC has reported. The plane crash-landed just moments after take-off. It is not clear what led to the crash.
But Governor José Rosas Aispuro said the plane was hit by a gust of wind, which caused a sudden descent. Its left wing then touched the ground and two engines came off.
“Most of the passengers were able to walk away before it caught fire”, the local media said.
The plane crashed at around 16:00 local time (21:00 GMT). The pilot of the plane is one of two who were seriously injured in the spine and in need of urgent operation.
‘We have to jump. When we were already aloft, up high, it felt like the plane was going to level out but just then it plunged to the ground. I think we fell back on the runway because it was a hard surface, then we skidded on the ground until it stopped.
“I undid my seatbelt and saw flames, and realised we had to jump. There was a hole right next to us where the plane had broken up. I told my girl, ‘We have to jump over here’, and we jumped,,” Passenger Jacqueline Flores told AFP.
Speaking on the incident, Governor Rosas said the crew were able to deploy the evacuation slides shortly after the crash, allowing those still on board to leave the plane safely before the flames spread.
