| Date: | Friday 10 May 1996 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 200 |
| Owner/operator: | Aero Servicios Empresariales |
| Registration: | XA-SWJ |
| MSN: | 126 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1968 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-20 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 17 / Occupants: 19 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Santa Maria de Otaez -
 Mexico
|
| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Durango-Guadalupe Victoria Airport (DGO/MMDO) |
| Santa Maria de Otaez |
Crashed into a hill while trying to land on a mine airstrip in gusty winds and turbulence.
One of the three surviving passengers died of injuries two weeks later.
Sources:
Scramble 205
El Informador 25 May 1996, p14D
Location
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Kendall-Tamiami Airport, FL (TMB/KTMB); August 1986
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