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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4461090.html
Jan. 10, 2007, 1:48PM
2 U.S. citizens die in Lear jet crash in Mexico
GUADALAJARA, Mexico — A U.S.-owned Lear 24 jet crashed and burst into flames early today in a hilly area of the western Mexican state of Jalisco, killing its two American pilots.
The aircraft, which took off from Laredo, Texas, went down shortly after midnight Tuesday, just minutes before it was scheduled to land at a local airport, state police official Jesus Pina said.
The aircraft is owned by the Addison, Texas-based aviation company Ameristar Jet Charter, said the company's vice president of operations, Stacy Muth.
Muth did not immediately release the names of the captain and first officer, the only people aboard the jet, but said one was from the Dallas area, while the other was from Michigan.
Muth said the plane was hauling one piece of nonhazardous freight to Guadalajara, but she declined to identify the contents.
The jet fell in the hills of the community of Zapotlanejo, about 22 miles southeast of the Jalisco state capital, Guadalajara. Witnesses reported hearing a loud noise and seeing flames from a distance.
Nobody on the ground was hurt, and authorities had not determined the cause of the crash.
The weather was good, and Ameristar is cooperating with Mexican authorities in the investigation, Muth said.
In August 2001, two pilots were killed when a Lear 25 jet operated by Ameristar Jet Charter crashed during takeoff from Ithaca-Tompkins, N.Y., Regional Airport.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4461090.html
Jan. 10, 2007, 1:48PM
2 U.S. citizens die in Lear jet crash in Mexico
GUADALAJARA, Mexico — A U.S.-owned Lear 24 jet crashed and burst into flames early today in a hilly area of the western Mexican state of Jalisco, killing its two American pilots.
The aircraft, which took off from Laredo, Texas, went down shortly after midnight Tuesday, just minutes before it was scheduled to land at a local airport, state police official Jesus Pina said.
The aircraft is owned by the Addison, Texas-based aviation company Ameristar Jet Charter, said the company's vice president of operations, Stacy Muth.
Muth did not immediately release the names of the captain and first officer, the only people aboard the jet, but said one was from the Dallas area, while the other was from Michigan.
Muth said the plane was hauling one piece of nonhazardous freight to Guadalajara, but she declined to identify the contents.
The jet fell in the hills of the community of Zapotlanejo, about 22 miles southeast of the Jalisco state capital, Guadalajara. Witnesses reported hearing a loud noise and seeing flames from a distance.
Nobody on the ground was hurt, and authorities had not determined the cause of the crash.
The weather was good, and Ameristar is cooperating with Mexican authorities in the investigation, Muth said.
In August 2001, two pilots were killed when a Lear 25 jet operated by Ameristar Jet Charter crashed during takeoff from Ithaca-Tompkins, N.Y., Regional Airport.
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