Mexico confirms 13 dead in jet crash
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Mexican authorities yesterday found human remains that confirm the death of the 13 people onboard a luxury jet that crashed over the weekend in the north of the country.
The private plane took off on Sunday from Las Vegas and was traveling to the Mexican city of Monterrey but crashed in a mountainous area difficult to access, where forensic experts had to arrive by helicopter.
The experts 鈥渞ecovered all the bodies 鈥 there are 13 of them,鈥 Coahuila state attorney general Gerardo Marquez said, adding that seven of the bodies were 鈥減ractically intact鈥 but burned, while the other six were 鈥渞educed to very small fragments鈥 due to the impact.
The remains were identified thanks to the positions in which the bodies were found among the debris of the aircraft. Further identification will take place by analyzing teeth and bone fragments.
Air-traffic controllers said they lost contact with the Bombardier Challenger 601 after it abruptly lost altitude over Coahuila. Only the wings and the tail were left intact.
Aboard the plane were two executives of the Mexican oil services company Typhoon Offshore, along with eight relatives. The group had come to Las Vegas to attend a fight in which Mexican boxer Saul 鈥淓l Canelo鈥 Alvarez defeated Daniel Jacobs of the United States.
The other three people who died were the crew of the plane. Coahuila Undersecretary of Civil Protection Francisco Martinez pointed to changing weather, with storms and strong winds a possible cause of the crash.
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