AeroUnion A300 Crashes in MTY
 

Just chatting with a fellow mexican spotter, he just told me that an A300 reg: XA-TUE from AeroUnion Cargo crashed in a highway during takeoff climb phase...few minutes ago... 5am UTC.

Fire Fighters are onsite and the mexican Army has cordoned off the area...

Media reports had confirmed that the 5 members of the crew perished in this unfortunate crash

METAR at the time of the crash...

METAR MMMY 140420Z 11012KT 3SM SHRA BKN006 OVC025CB 20/19 A2999 RMK 8/9// SHRAB15 LTGIC=


http://images.scribblelive.com/2010/...78bc07f8d7.jpg

Fox news
 

I understand the flight was departing Monterray to LAX, rather than on approach.

@ Jim

Thanks for the heads up...

Plane involved

http://images3.jetphotos.net/img/2/0...1265246800.jpg

What does the RMK 8/9// in the METAR mean?

Type of clouds.

Interesting times. An Airbus, a Tupolev & a Boeing jet all w/o in less than a week.

Possible ground casualties too?

From the limited preliminary info, yes, some ground casualties. It looks like it was during approach, not during takeoff. The wreckage is just west of RWY 11. The reported winds were from the east.

Bobman84, think I would include the Cathay A330 in that list, didn't crash, but there for the grace of god. . . . :eek:

Statement from Airbus about the AeroUnion A300 accident, includes info about the a/c; confirms five crew members on board:

Aero Union Flight 302 accident near Monterrey Mexico

Deleted photo - photo was posted in Columbian News and reported to be
the accident aircraft in this thread, apologies to all.

rob. CYKZ

Looks like #2 is in reverse... (maybe due to inpact force?).

Bill Occam suggests: could be a side cowl over the fan missing?


tongue in cheek mode

I think the reverser itself is missing.

This picture does NOT show the AeroUnion A300 crashed in Mexico. It´s a crop of a picture of the Fedex MD 11 crashed in Tokyo!

see:

Fedex tokyo image by pushpinderbagga on Photobucket

for example

Robbreid Picture Not AU A300
 

The picture Robbreid posted is a FedEx MD-11 that crashed in 2009.

Wow. Good catch.

Actually excellent catch!!

I'm just looking for the link, photo was posted and purported to be the accident aircraft. Came from a Columbian News Service.

Apologies for the posting, I myself hadn't caught the difference in aircraft type, let alone the FedEx accident.

fsmex.com thread on this accident.

Is it only me, or has anyone else noticed how extraordinary this thread is?? It's been up for a couple of days, an Airbus crashes.....and the thread is only 1 page? No amateur accident investigators, no 'RIP' messages, no endless hashing out the EXACT aircraft registration, no posting of the WX for 24 years before and after the event, etc, etc.......?? :eek:

OH....and let's not forget the required Airbus vs Boeing drive bys! :{

just curious.....:}

Dunno......I used to chat a fair bit with the AeroUnion guys when they were doing Menlo outa Datyon so I hope it wasn't someone I knew.....