Aviation

Citation

(2007), "Aviation", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 16 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/dpm.2007.07316bac.006

Aviation

22 September 2005 Crash, Mexico City Area, Mexico

A cabinet minister who led Mexico’s fight against the drug cartels, his deputy and seven others died in a helicopter crash in the mountains west of Mexico City. While one official aboard the craft had received death threats from a drug trafficker, authorities said the crash appeared to be an accident caused by poor visibility due to dense cloud cover. The helicopter, carrying Public Safety Secretary Ramon Martin Huerta, Federal Preventive Police Chief Tomas Valencia, five other passengers and a crew of two, had taken off from a military parade ground in Mexico City. The Bell 412 helicopter was heading to an event at the maximum-security La Palma prison, 35 miles west of Mexico City, when it was lost in dense fog and clouds.

6 October 2005 PK-RIM

The families of more than 100 people killed in an aircraft crash in Indonesia last month plan to sue aircraft manufacturer Boeing, a US-law firm representing the families said today. Manuel Ribbeck, from Chicago-based Nolan Law Group, said the firm would file the suit in Chicago, where Boeing is also based. Ribbeck declined to say how much the company intended to sue for, nor the basis of the suit. The Boeing 737-200 (PKRIM) crashed soon after take-off in the Sumatran city of Medan on Sep 5. Setio Raharjo, head of the National Transportation Safety Board and the lead investigator in the crash, said today the probe into the crash would be completed by early next year. He would not speculate on the cause of the accident, and said he had not heard of Nolan’s plan to sue Boeing.