Accident description
Last updated: 18 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 27 JUL 1981 |
| Type: | McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 |
| Operator: | Aeroméxico |
| Registration: | XA-DEN |
| C/n / msn: | 47621/729 |
| First flight: | 1974 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney JT8D-17 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 6 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 28 / Occupants: 60 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 30 / Occupants: 66 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Chihuahua Airport (CUU) (Mexico)
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| Phase: | Landing (LDG) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Monterrey-General Mariano Escobedo Airport (MTY/MMMY), Mexico |
| Chihuahua-Gen Fierro Villalobos Airport (CUU/MMCU), Mexico | |
| Flightnumber: | 230 |
The DC-9 landed 150m to the right and 60m after the runway threshold. The aircraft bounced and struck the ground; the fuselage broke and the aircraft caught fire.
Weather at the time: tropical air mass, isolated cumulonimbus with strong squalls and showers.
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Distance from Monterrey-General Mariano Escobedo Airport to Chihuahua-Gen Fierro Villalobos Airport as the crow flies is 660 km (412 miles).
Distance from Monterrey-General Mariano Escobedo Airport to Chihuahua-Gen Fierro Villalobos Airport as the crow flies is 660 km (412 miles).
This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
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