| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | November 2008 
Mexico Crash Probe: Pilot Lost Control of Plane
 Associated Press
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| | Secretary of Communications and Transport Luis Téllez (L) confirmed that the Learjet 45, in which Interior Secretary Juan Camilo Mouriño was travelling, crash as a result of an accident, according to available information. (Presidencia de la República) | | |
Mexico City – An official overseeing the investigation into a plane crash that killed Mexico's interior secretary say the jet was not on fire and did break up prior to the crash, and evidence indicates the pilot lost control.
Officials say the plane was traveling at almost 300 mph (500 kph) when it crashed into cars on a Mexico City street on Tuesday, killing 14.
The plane was supposed to be turning east toward the city's international airport, but was traveling almost northward when it crashed.
Investigation head Gilberto Lopez said Saturday that “this clearly proves what we had believed, that there was an abrupt loss of control.”
Lopez did not give a cause. Investigators are looking at whether turbulence from another plane played a role.
Learjet 45 Crash an Accident: Luis Tellez
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Mexico City - Secretary of Communications and Transport Luis Téllez confirmed that the Learjet 45, in which Interior Secretary Juan Camilo Mouriño was travelling, crash as a result of an accident, according to available information.
The SCT director explained that five conclusions reinforce this hypothesis. The first is that according to information from the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), there were no explosives in the plane before it fell.
The second is that all the plane's components have been recovered for analysis, showing that its engines were running normally and at the same speed.
A fourth conclusion is that the plane’s memory was recovered and has already been flown to the Air Force in Tucson, Arizona for the manufacturers to extract the information they contain.
Lastly, he remarked that there are positive expectations about the information in the black boxes which have been being analyzed in U.S. laboratories since Wednesday.
Investigations rule out engine failure: López Meyer
Director General of Civil Aeronautics Gilberto López Meyer declared that the engines of the plane in which Interior Secretariat Juan Camilo Mouriño were traveling were working at high speed at the time of impact, "thereby ruling out engine failure."
At a press conference, he declared that investigations undertaken to data show that both engines were rotating at high speed at the time of impact and at approximately the same speed.
He pointed out that investigators had recovered the memories of the electronic control units, which store useful information on the engines' functioning and some of the plane's other parameters, which will help clarify events.
He added, however, that the motors had been partly dismantled before being transported to preserve the most important pieces.
López Meyer added that at approximately 15:00 hours, a Mexican air force plane transported the pieces to the engine factory in Tucson, Arizona.
He stressed that significant progress has been made in the investigation, particularly of the data and voice recording systems, air traffic services and especially the engines.
He explained that seven Mexican and five American technicians began work at dawn yesterday and were joined by a British expert, with concrete results being due in less a week.
"Field research has advanced normally, because progress has been made. All the plane's key components have been found and there are no indications that flight was interrupted, because of some of the components that ensure proper conditions," he declared. |
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