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Mexicana de Aviación Flight 940

1986 CE · Mexico, North America · Disaster

Mexicana de Aviación Flight 940
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Mexicana de Aviación Flight 940 was a scheduled international flight from Mexico City to Los Angeles with stopovers in Puerto Vallarta and Mazatlán. On March 31, 1986, the aircraft serving the route, a Boeing 727 registered as XA-MEM, crashed into El Carbón, a mountain in the Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range northwest of Mexico City.

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