2012 Mexico Learjet 25 crash
A Learjet 25 similar to the crashed aircraft.
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| Accident summary | |
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| Date | 9 December 2012 |
| Summary | Undetermined |
| Site | Near Iturbide, Nuevo León, Mexico 24°27′N 99°31′W / 24.45°N 99.52°W |
| 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.
The aircraft was a Learjet 25, operated by Starwood Management LLC and registered N345MC. It had been built some 43 years before the crash.
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 at about 9,000 feet (2,700 m) above sea level.
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.
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." A runaway trim condition is suspected, with crew fatigue as a contributing factor.
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