Date:	Thursday 1 September 1949
Time:
Type:	Douglas DC-3
Owner/operator:	Transportes Aéreos de Jalisco - TAJ
Registration:	XA-GAO
MSN:
Year of manufacture:	1942
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 16
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	El Tuito -   Mexico
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Passenger
Departure airport:
Destination airport:	Puerto Vallarta Airport (PVR/MMPR)

Narrative:
Hit tree on takeoff, crashed and caught fire. The aircraft operated on a flight from El Tuito to Puerto Vallarta, Mascota and Talpa to Guadalajara.

El Informador 6 September 1949, p1+3
El Siglo de Torreon 6 September 1949, p1
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge

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