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Date: | Saturday 13 August 1966 |
Time: | 02:15 |
Type: | Douglas DC-8-51 |
Owner/operator: | Aeronaves de México |
Registration: | XA-PEI |
MSN: | 45652/176 |
Year of manufacture: | 1962 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT3D- |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 33 km from Acapulco -
Mexico
|
Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | Acapulco-Alvarez International Airport (ACA/MMAA) |
Destination airport: | Acapulco-Alvarez International Airport (ACA/MMAA) |
Narrative:The DC-8 had arrived from a flight from New York and Mexico City at 00:12 and was serviced and refueled. The aircraft took off again for a training flight at 01:14. The plane crashed during a procedure turn while approaching Acapulco.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Careless and untimely descent in the course of a procedure turn which was continued below established minimum altitude."
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photo (c) J. Bongers, via Dietrich Eggert; Frankfurt International Airport (FRA/EDDF); 04 April 1963
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