| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | December 2008 
Mexico Plane Crash Injures Officials, Reporters
 Associated Press
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| | In this Nov. 6, 2008 file photo, Mexico's President Felipe Calderon, second from left, and his wife, Margarita Zavala, left, stand next to the coffin of his right-hand man, Interior Secretary Juan Camilo Mourino, during a funeral ceremony at the Campo de Marte military field in Mexico City. Mourino, one of Mexico's top pointmen in the war against drug trafficking, died when a government jet crashed Nov. 4 into a Mexico City street, killing five people on the ground and nine people on the plane, including Mourino.(AP/Eduardo Verdugo) | |
Mexico City – An official says a small plane carrying government officials and television reporters crashed in northern Mexico and all five people on board are in serious condition.
Coahuila state Civil Protection director Segismundo Doguin says the Cessna Centurion crashed Friday just before reaching the airport in Ramos Arispe.
The plane was carrying state water commission chief Rafael Reyes, his assistant and two TV Azteca reporters. They were hospitalized along with the pilot.
The cause is under investigation.
It is at least the fourth plane to crash this year with government officials on board. In November, the interior minister and 15 other people died when a jet plowed into a Mexico City neighborhood. |
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