2012 Mexico Learjet 25 crash

The Death of Jenni Rivera

A Learjet 25 similar to the crashed aircraft.
Accident summary
Date 9 December 2012 (2012-12-09)
Summary Undetermined
Site Near Iturbide, Nuevo León, Mexico
24°27′N 99°31′W / 24.45°N 99.52°W / 24.45; -99.52
Passengers 5
Crew 2
Fatalities 7 (all)
Injuries (non-fatal) 0
Survivors 0
Aircraft type Learjet 25
Operator Starwood Management LLC
Registration N345MC
Flight origin Monterrey International Airport, Mexico
Destination Toluca International Airport, Mexico

The 2012 Mexico Learjet 25 crash was the 9 December 2012 crash of a business jet in which singer Jenni Rivera was travelling. All five passengers and two crew on board the aircraft were killed in the crash. It was the first fatal crash involving a commercial Learjet 25 in nine years.[1]

Aircraft

The aircraft was a Learjet 25, operated by Starwood Management LLC and registered N345MC. It had been built some 43 years before the crash.[1][2]

Accident

The Learjet 25 was chartered to fly Jenni Rivera and four others from Monterrey in northern Mexico to Toluca near Mexico City after she performed a concert at the Monterrey Arena. It left Monterrey International Airport at about 3:30am local time on 9 December 2012. About seven minutes after takeoff, while cruising at about 28,000 feet (8,500 m) above sea level, the aircraft suddenly entered a high-speed descent. It crashed near Iturbide, Nuevo León[3] at about 9,000 feet (2,700 m) above sea level.[1][4]

When search and rescue teams located the wreckage of the aircraft more than 24 hours later, it was reportedly strewn across an area nearly 1,000 feet (300 m) wide. Authorities said it could take as long as ten days to recover all the wreckage needed for the investigation from the crash site.[2]

Investigation

In December 2014, Mexican authorities closed the investigation into what brought the aircraft down. Mexican Director of Civil Aviation, Gilberto Gómez Meyer, stated that the results of the investigation were inconclusive and that the investigators were unable to determine the exact cause of the crash. Meyer declared to the American Spanish-language entertainment news show El Gordo y la Flaca, "We haven't been able to [find out what happened] and the investigation is over... The impact was so violent, the velocity of the impact was, surely, supersonic. It was so big that the only thing we could find ... that was identifiable from the black box of the recorder was the covering, or the outer layer."[5][6] A runaway trim condition is suspected, with crew fatigue as a contributing factor.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Accident Description". Aviation Safety Network. 9 December 2012. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  2. 1 2 Whitfield, Bethany (11 December 2012). "Jenni Rivera Killed in Learjet Crash". flyingmag.com. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  3. ↑ "Recent Accidents". planecrashinfo.com. 9 December 2012. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  4. ↑ "Plane of singer Jenni Rivera missing in Mexico". salon.com. Associated Press. 10 December 2012. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  5. ↑ "¿Cuál fue la verdadera causa de la muerte de Jenni Rivera? Resultados de la investigación". El Gordo y la Flaca (in Spanish). Univision Communications. December 22, 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
  6. ↑ Simon, Yara (December 23, 2014). "Jenni Rivera Death Update 2014: Investigation Is Over, But Questions Remain". Latin Post. The Latin Post Company. Retrieved 22 March 2015.

External links

Mexican DGAC documents

National Transportation Safety Board documents:

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