An Aeromexico-operated Embraer passenger jet crashed in Mexico’s northern state of Durango on Tuesday, the airline said. No deaths have been reported.
MEXICO CITY, July 31 (Reuters) – An Aeromexico-operated Embraer passenger jet crashed in Mexico’s northern state of Durango on Tuesday, the airline said, with the state’s civil protection agency saying there were so far no reports of deaths.
TV images showed the tail of a plane bearing an Aeromexico logo emerging from scrubland and a column of smoke rising into the sky. A reporter for network Milenio said some passengers had survived and walked to a highway to seek help.
The Mexican airline said on Twitter that flight number 2431 was an Embraer 190 with capacity for 100 passengers and was bound for Mexico City when it crashed.
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A person watches as smoke billows above a site where an Aeromexico-operated Embraer passenger jet crashed in Mexico’s northern state of Durango, July 31,2018, in this still image taken from a video obtained from social media.
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Ambulances are seen at the airport of Durango, in northern Mexico, after a plane carrying 97 passengers and four crew crashed on take off near the city’s airport on July 31,2018. – Dozens of people were injured as an airliner crashed on takeoff during a heavy hail storm in northern Mexico, engulfing the plane in flames, Aeromexico airline and passengers said Tuesday. (Photo by LULU MURILLO / AFP) (Photo credit should read LULU MURILLO/AFP/Getty Images)
A policeman stands guard at the airport of Durango, in northern Mexico, after a plane carrying 97 passengers and four crew crashed on take off near the city’s airport on July 31,2018. – Dozens of people were injured as an airliner crashed on takeoff during a heavy hail storm in northern Mexico, engulfing the plane in flames, Aeromexico airline and passengers said Tuesday. (Photo by Lulu MURILLO / AFP) (Photo credit should read LULU MURILLO/AFP/Getty Images)
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Shortly after taking off, the plane made an emergency landing about six miles (10 km) from the airport, Alejandro Cardoza, a spokesman for the state’s civil protection agency, said on local television.
Governor Jose Rosas Aispuro said on local television that the plane was bound for Mexico City.
“The plane was taking off,” said Rosas Aispuro, adding that witnesses told him there was “a bang” and then without warning the plane was on the ground.
Embraer did not immediately respond to requests for comment about the Mexican incident.
(Reporting by Mexico City Newsroom; writing by Julia Love; Editing by Frank Jack Daniel and Tom Brown)
