Aeroméxico Connect Flight 2431 · Mexico
On July 31, 2018, Aeroméxico Connect Flight 2431 (Mexico). No one was seriously hurt.
- Date
- July 31, 2018
- Place
- Mexico
- Operator
- Aeroméxico Connect
- Killed
- 0
- Injured
- 85
- Position
- 24.138°N, 104.517°W
- Wikidata ID
- Q55859110
From Wikipedia
Aeroméxico Connect Flight 2431 was a Mexican domestic scheduled passenger flight bound for Mexico City that crashed on takeoff from Durango International Airport on July 31, 2018. Shortly after becoming airborne, the plane encountered sudden wind shear caused by a microburst. The plane rapidly lost speed and altitude and impacted the runway, detaching the engines and skidding to a halt about 1,000 feet (300 m) beyond the runway. The plane caught fire and was destroyed. All 103 people on board survived, but 39 passengers and crew members were injured.
A final report on the crash was released on February 23, 2019. Investigators found that the primary cause of the accident was adverse weather conditions encountered by the flight, and contributing factors included crew error, air traffic controller error, and the lack of equipment that could detect wind shear conditions at airports. Investigators determined that the flight crew was distracted by an unauthorized student in the cockpit who was flying the plane, which led to a loss of situational awareness.
Text from Wikipedia, “Aeroméxico Connect Flight 2431”, CC BY-SA 4.0; shortened to the introduction. Authors.
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