Date: | Friday 6 October 2000 |
Time: | 16:55 |
Type: | McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31 |
Owner/operator: | Aeroméxico |
Registration: | N936ML |
MSN: | 47501/571 |
Year of manufacture: | 1970 |
Total airframe hrs: | 74277 hours |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT8D-17 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 88 |
Other fatalities: | 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Reynosa-Gen Lucio Blanco Airport (REX) -
Mexico
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Mexico City-Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX/MMMX) |
Destination airport: | Reynosa-Gen. Lucio Blanco Airport (REX/MMRX) |
Investigating agency: | SCT |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:Aeroméxico Flight 250 departed Mexico City for an 85-minute flight to Reynosa. Landing at Reynosa, the aircraft was not able to stop before the runway end and overran. The DC-9 crashed through some houses and ended up in a ditch. The captain of the flight had more than 10,300 flight hours and numerous regular landings at the Reynosa airport since 1983, according to Aeromexico.
Weather reported around 17:00 at Reynosa included a temperature of 77F/25C; 1014 mB and westerly wind at 5 mph with haze. The area had been subject to heavy rainfall due to tropical storm 'Keith'.
Probable cause: "Long landing and contact, after a high approach with excessive speed as a result of a non-precision approach, on a waterlogged runway and in adverse weather conditions (discharge of CB's in the area), with the aircraft departing from the opposite runway threshold (113)".
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | SCT |
Report number: | 081/00 |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | 7 months |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
Aeromexico
AP
Location
Images:
photo (c) Robert Campbell; June 1999
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Miami International Airport, FL (MIA); January 1994
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