Mexicana de Aviación Flight 940 · Maravatío Municipality
On March 31, 1986, Mexicana de Aviación Flight 940 (Maravatío Municipality). 167 people died.
- Date
- March 31, 1986
- Place
- Maravatío Municipality
- Operator
- Mexicana de Aviación
- Killed
- 167
- Position
- 19.846°N, 100.288°W
- Wikidata ID
- Q2381192
From Wikipedia
Mexicana de Aviación Flight 940 was a scheduled international flight from Mexico City to Los Angeles with stopovers in Puerto Vallarta and Mazatlán. On March 31, 1986, the Boeing 727 Veracruz, registered as XA-MEM, crashed into El Carbón, a mountain in the Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range northwest of Mexico City. All 159 passengers and 8 crew members on board died in the crash. With 167 deaths, the crash of Flight 940 is the deadliest aviation disaster ever on Mexican soil, and the deadliest involving a Boeing 727.
An inquiry was opened by the Mexican government, with additional assistance from the National Transportation Safety Board. The investigation concluded that the crash was caused by a tire explosion in the left rear wheel well; faulty brakes resulted in excessive friction on take-off and the overheating of the left rear landing gear tires, which exploded. The explosion ignited fuel and hydraulic fluids, causing a fire to quickly grow and melt parts of the fuselage, resulting in structural failure and an in-flight breakup.
Text from Wikipedia, “Mexicana de Aviación Flight 940”, CC BY-SA 4.0; shortened to the introduction. Authors.
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