A Cessna 650 Citation with registration R/N XA-PRO has crashed in Mexico killing 10 persond on board.
The doomed ket was on a final approach to to land at Toluca Intl.Airport, Toluca, Mexico when it suddenly crashed due to yet undetermined reasons.
The jet according to preliminary reports was owned and operated by Jetpro S.A.
The private charter jet had earlier taken off from Acapulco-Alvarez Intl.Airport with two crew and eight pax.onboard for the 190 mile
(300 km)flight to Toluca.
The flight appeared to go normally until the aircraft began its final approach to land at Toluca on Rwy.33, ADS-B shows the aircraft lined up perfectly when without warning the aircraft entered a steep high speed bank to the left losing height rapidly(CCTV image centre) from which it did not recover until it impacted the ground at a local football field and collided with adjacent warehouses where it was destroyed.
Local Police, Fire and EMS crews arrived quickly at the scene but little could be done, Firecrews battled for over an hour to knock down the fuel fed fire before any sort of search for victims could begin. Per this report they confirmed that seven had been killed and recovered from the wreckage, three are still listed as “missing” believed deceased as the search continues.
Investigators from AFAC are enroute to begin their investigation into the cause.
The CCTV footage of the aircrafts last seconds of flight can be viewed on “X”.
More details to follow…
