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Latin American Herald Tribune - Eight Dead in Mexico Helicopter Crash
VERACRUZ, Mexico – Eight people were killed when a helicopter owned by a contractor for state oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos crashed in a municipality of the Mexican Gulf coast state of Veracruz, local authorities said.
The incident occurred Friday afternoon in the Veracruz municipality of Las Choapas, at some 600 kilometers (370 miles) east of the nation’s capital, where a Bell helicopter went down carrying eight employees – two pilots and six mechanics – of the Heliservicio Campeche firm.
According to a report by civil aviation authorities, the aircraft that took off in Ciudad del Carmen in Campeche state en route to Minatitlan Airport in Veracruz, rose in the air and suddenly crashed to the ground.
Authorities said that the company provides services to Pemex for transporting personnel to oil platforms in Campeche Sound.
Emergency management officials and army soldiers found the bodies at the scene of the accident.
Elsewhere, a private plane belonging to Veracruz businessman Bernardo Ruiz skidded off the runway early Friday from Gen. Heriberto Jara International Airport at the port of Veracruz.
According to official reports, the plane’s landing gear was damaged, which caused it to go off the runway but without harming either the pilot or the single passenger.
Last week a light plane with six passengers and two pilots aboard went missing after taking off from the Canticas airport in Minatitlan.
Flying in that aircraft of the Alfe air-taxi company were six executives of the Coppel department-store chain plus the two pilots, whose bodies have not yet been found.
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