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rotorspeed
6th Sep 2014, 06:44
Understand an Agusta 109SP crashed in Mexico on 2 September with 2 fatalities. Anyone know anything more?
as far as I know there is no new news on it , Agusta have sent to customers official letter informing about accident and that they deploy their staff to Mexico to help local authorities , they will keep upddate customers as fast as they gather some more info
Modtro
6th Sep 2014, 17:59
Only news I was able to get as for now is that it was a Government aircraft, Pilot and Co-pilot did not survive.
Attached is a news link in spanish.
Hallan restos de helicóptero extraviado en Toluca | Excélsior (http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2014/09/02/979634)
Rotor Work
7th Sep 2014, 00:03
From ASN
ASN Aircraft accident 02-SEP-2014 AgustaWestland A109S Grand XC-ALM (http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=169521)
2 Die in helicopter crash in Mexico | Fox News Latino (http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2014/09/03/2-die-in-helicopter-crash-in-mexico/)
2 Die in Helicopter Crash
Both people aboard were killed when a helicopter crashed near the central Mexican town of Lerma, authorities said.
The aircraft belonged to the government of the state of Mexico.
Pilot Romel Portillo Cervio and co-pilot Gerardo Avalos Garcia died Tuesday when the Augusta A109S Grand helicopter went down en route from the Mexico City area to Toluca, the state capital.
The chopper was reported missing at 6:25 p.m. and first responders found the wreckage of the aircraft about two hours later just 8 kilometers (5 miles) from the Toluca airport, the state government said.
Gov. Eruviel Avila Villegas, "expressed his condolences to the families" of the two men and assured them the state would pay the funeral expenses, his office said in a statement.
"The governor said state authorities will collaborate with the Civil Aviation Directorate to carry out the investigations that allow the causes of the accident to be determined," the statement concluded.