Mexican navy helicopter crashes, killing 3 marines
MEXICO Town — The Mexican Navy mentioned Saturday that 3 marines have been killed and two others ended up injured following a reconnaissance helicopter crashed in the Gulf coast point out of Tabasco.
The Navy reported in a assertion that the Eurocopter craft went down during an aerial surveillance patrol. Video posted on social media confirmed what appeared to be a small, non-armored chopper spinning and then crashing near the city of Frontera, Tabasco.
The Navy explained the result in of the crash was below investigation.
The incident arrived two days following authorities acknowledged that the crash of an additional navy helicopter in July that killed 14 marines was triggered by a absence of gas.
On Thursday, the Attorney General’s Workplace documented that the chopper ran out of gas pursuing an operation to capture drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero.
The Black Hawk crashed July 15 in Los Mochis, a metropolis in Sinaloa state close to Mexico’s Pacific coastline, hrs after marines captured Caro Quintero in the mountains.
Caro Quintero was needed for extradition to the United States for the 1985 killing of Drug Enforcement Administration agent Kiki Camarena. That extradition course of action proceeds.
The Legal professional General’s Office said in a statement that the investigation had ruled out the probability the helicopter was downed in an assault and that the manufacturer’s examination of the aircraft’s flight recorder concluded it ran out of fuel.
MEXICO Town — The Mexican Navy mentioned Saturday that 3 marines have been killed and two others ended up injured following a reconnaissance helicopter crashed in the Gulf coast point out of Tabasco.
The Navy reported in a assertion that the Eurocopter craft went down during an aerial surveillance patrol. Video posted on social media confirmed what appeared to be a small, non-armored chopper spinning and then crashing near the city of Frontera, Tabasco.
The Navy explained the result in of the crash was below investigation.
The incident arrived two days following authorities acknowledged that the crash of an additional navy helicopter in July that killed 14 marines was triggered by a absence of gas.
On Thursday, the Attorney General’s Workplace documented that the chopper ran out of gas pursuing an operation to capture drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero.
The Black Hawk crashed July 15 in Los Mochis, a metropolis in Sinaloa state close to Mexico’s Pacific coastline, hrs after marines captured Caro Quintero in the mountains.
Caro Quintero was needed for extradition to the United States for the 1985 killing of Drug Enforcement Administration agent Kiki Camarena. That extradition course of action proceeds.
The Legal professional General’s Office said in a statement that the investigation had ruled out the probability the helicopter was downed in an assault and that the manufacturer’s examination of the aircraft’s flight recorder concluded it ran out of fuel.