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An Aeroméxico airplane with 101 folks aboard crashed Tuesday afternoon shortly after takeoff from General Guadalupe Victoria International Airport within the northwestern Mexican state of Durango, authorities mentioned.
No one among the many 97 passengers and 4 crew members was killed, mentioned José R. Aispuro Torres, the governor of Durango state, however 49 folks have been being handled at hospitals.
Among the injured was the Rev. Esequiel Sanchez, rector of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Des Plaines, Illinois, the church instructed NBC Chicago. It mentioned Sanchez was listed as steady at a Durango hospital.
The airplane, which the airline mentioned was an Embraer 190 plane flying from Durango to Mexico City, tried to take off at about 3:45 p.m. native time (4:45 p.m. ET) throughout a storm and went down about 1,500 toes from the runway, Aispuro mentioned. Emergency employees have been nonetheless wanting by way of extraordinarily scorching particles to verify nobody was left contained in the airplane, he mentioned.
An area authorities official instructed ADN40, a part of Mexico’s TV Azteca, that the airplane had been flying at a low altitude only a few minutes after it took off. He mentioned many individuals walked away from the scene.
“Most people didn’t want to be checked out because they were fine,” he mentioned.
Grupo Aeroportuario, which operates the airport and others throughout Mexico, mentioned climate was believed to be guilty.
The state’s civil protection company posted early pictures on Twitter.
The Embraer 190 is a narrow-body medium-range twin-engine jet made by Brazilian producer Embraer.