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Mexicana de Aviación Flight 704

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Mexicana de Aviación Flight 704
A Mexicana Boeing 727, similar to the one involved
Accident
Date4 June 1969 (1969-06-04)
SummaryControlled flight into terrain
SiteApodaca, Nuevo León
Aircraft
Aircraft typeBoeing 727-64
Aircraft nameAzteca de Oro
OperatorMexicana de Aviación
RegistrationXA-SEL
Flight originLic. Benito Juarez International Airport
DestinationDel Norte International Airport
Occupants79
Passengers72
Crew7
Fatalities79
Survivors0

On 4 June 1969, Mexicana de Aviación Flight 704, a Boeing 727-64 airliner registered XA-SEL, was destroyed near El Carmen, some 20 miles north of the city of Monterrey. All 79 people on board were killed.

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Accident

Flight MX704 departed Mexico City, bound for Monterrey, at 07:02 local time. The flight was uneventful until approach, when the crew began descending at a vertical speed of 1500–1600 ft / min (460–490 m / min) at an airspeed of 250 knots. During its approach to Del Norte International Airport, the crew contacted the landing controller and requested weather conditions and traffic information. The dispatcher reported that the weather over the airport was cloudy with a lower boundary of 500 feet (150 m) with haze, light raining, and no other aircraft in the airport zone. The crew asked if the radio beacon at Cienega de Flores was operating, and received word that it was not functioning due to an electrical power outage. Flight 704 then reported that, for some reason, they received a signal similar to the signal from this beacon. The crew then reported the airport in sight, and began to carry out the final approach. This was the last transmission from the aircraft.[1][2][3]

The aircraft ended up destroyed in the Cerro del Fraile mountain range, killing all 79 people on board.[3][4] The event was the deadliest aviation accident on Mexican soil until Mexicana Flight 940, a Boeing 727, crashed on 31 March 1986, killing all 167 people on board.[1]

Aircraft

The aircraft involved was a two-year-old Boeing 727-064 registered XA-SEL (factory - 19256, serial - 355) The aircraft's maiden flight was on 6 January 1967. On 17 January, the aircraft was delivered to Mexicana de Aviación (later re branded as Mexicana), where it was named Azteca de Oro.[5] The aircraft was powered by three Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7B turbofan engines.[1]

Crew

The captain was Guillermo García Ramos, a World War II veteran. He was experienced in both military and commercial aviation. He had 15,000 flying hours on commercial aircraft. The first officer was Carlos de Iturbide Magallón. The flight engineer was Alfonso Navarro Mazzini.[citation needed]

Notable passengers

Notable passengers on the flight included Mexican tennis star Rafael Osuna, the architect Jorge González Reyna and politician Carlos A. Madrazo.[2]

Investigation

The investigating board was unable to determine the reason for such a deviation, since the last few minutes of the recording were absent from the cockpit voice recorder. It was also not possible to determine which radio beacon the fight had been receiving, as the airport radio beacon at that moment stopped working due to loss of electrical power.[2] Since well-known Mexican politician Carlos Madrazo was on board, there were also hypotheses regarding political assassination.[2]

Conspiracy theories

Some Mexican media, such as Uno TV, have argued that the accident was a premeditated, political assassination act, since politician Carlos Madrazo was in the aircraft at the time of the accident.[6] In an interview with Revista Proceso in Mexico, writer Patricia Rosas Lopategui also argued that the accident was a political assassination targeting Madrazo.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c "ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 727-64 XA-SEL Monterrey-Gen Mariano Escobedo Airport (MTY)". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 2015-07-05.
  2. ^ a b c d "POLÉMICA EN EL VUELO 704 DE MEXICANA: ¿ERROR DEL PILOTO O CRIMEN DE ESTADO?" (in Spanish). LOS GRANDES ACCIDENTES AEREOS EN EL MUNDO. 2011-09-05. Retrieved 2015-07-05.
  3. ^ a b "Mexican jet smashes peak, 79 aboard die". Montreal Gazette. 1969-06-05. p. 1. Retrieved 2015-07-05.
  4. ^ "The Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  5. ^ "Registration Details For XA-SEL (Mexicana) 727-64". PlaneLogger. Retrieved 2015-07-05.
  6. ^ ""La muerte de Carlos Alberto Madrazo fue un crimen político"". www.unotv.com. Feb 25, 2020. Retrieved May 3, 2021.
  7. ^ "Elena Garro y Carlos Alberto Madrazo, figuras olvidadas de 1968: Rosas Lopátegui". www.proceso.com.mx. Retrieved May 3, 2021.

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