Ameristar Lear 24 crashes today
Two Die In Cargo Jet Crash In Mexico
(January 10, 2007)--A Dallas-area aviation company says two of its pilots died in the crash of a jet in Mexico on a cargo flight from Laredo.
Ameristar Jet Charter vice president Stacy Muth says the captain and the first officer were killed in Tuesday night's accident about 15 miles from the Guadalajara airport.
She says the Lear 24 went down in a rural, hilly area.
The wreckage has been located. No one else was on board.
Nobody on the ground was hurt.
Muth says the cause of the crash is sought.
She says the weather was good at the time of the accident.
The names of the pilots weren't immediately released, but Muth says one was from the Dallas area, while the other was from Michigan.
Muth says the plane was hauling one piece of non-hazardous freight to Guadalajara.
She declined to identify the contents.
Muth also told The Associated Press that it was reported to her, by unofficial sources, that there was a post-crash fire.
Addison-based Ameristar Jet Charter is cooperating with Mexican authorities in the investigation.