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Old 24th Jan 2014, 12:37
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1979 Western Airlines 2605 information?

Due to professional circumstances I happened to develop a private interest in aviation investigations. While searching for the Western Airlines 2605, Mexico City, 1979 accident I discovered that there is nothing at all on the web. It is like this crash never happened.

This is what I have gathered this far:

Some forum posts from 2004-2005 claiming there is "a wealth of material" on google. A few mentions of an actual report has been made and a few attempts to explain the crash - although that seems to be all hearsay or maybe not factual at least. Speculation about the relationship between the Capt and FO f.ex.

There is a small Wikipedia article about it, but no actual sources is referenced - no accident investigation f.ex.

A very brief mention on an NTSB Safety Recommendation makes me believe this accident actually occured.

I stumbled upon a site called tedbros with a few photos and a reference to someone called Eddy Valencia.

During my searches I have found no transcripts, no TV programmes (except for a one minute excerpt on YouTube), no Eddy Valencia, no CVR recordings, no accident report from SENTAM (Mexican aviation bureau at that time?), zilch, zero, nothing. All links from the old forum posts are gone, missing, wrong, uninformational, substituted or just plain dead.

I am astonished that all this information seems to have been available some years ago but now it is all gone. If anybody here might know a tidbit I would be glad to hear about it. If it is sensitive in any way, please let me know about it without bashing. I wasn't even out of my diapers when this particular accident happened.
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