Aerocaribe Flight 7831 · Mexico
On July 8, 2000, Aerocaribe Flight 7831 (Mexico). 19 people died.
- Date
- July 8, 2000
- Place
- Mexico
- Operator
- MexicanaClick
- Killed
- 19
- Position
- 17.400°N, 92.483°W
- Wikidata ID
- Q4688217
From Wikipedia
Aerocaribe Flight 7831 was a British Aerospace Jetstream 32EP, registration N912FJ, with 17 passengers and two crew on an intra-Mexican short haul flight from Terán Airport in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, to Villahermosa International Airport in Villahermosa, Tabasco. On 8 July 2000, Flight 7831 departed Téran at approximately 19:30. Subsequently, it encountered severe weather, which the captain requested permission from air traffic control (ATC) at Tuxtla Gutiérrez to fly around.
ATC granted the request, and the flight turned to the right, but at 19:50 Flight 7831 crashed in a mountainous area while descending, bursting into flames on impact near Chulum Juarez, Chiapas. All 19 passengers and crew on board died.
Text from Wikipedia, “Aerocaribe Flight 7831”, CC BY-SA 4.0; shortened to the introduction. Authors.
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