Aeroméxico Flight 111, on June 2, 1958, was a commercial flight with the route Tijuana–Mazatlán–Guadalajara–Mexico City–Acapulco, was an aviation accident that happened in Mexico which resulted in the death of its 46 occupants. The aircraft involved was a Lockheed ConstellationL-749,[2] which, after taking off from Guadalajara International Airport at 21:53 local time, crashed into Cerro Latillas, a hill in the municipality of Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, at 22:06.[3]
The aircraft, upon resuming its flight in Guadalajara, carried 39 passengers and seven crew members. All perished.
Passengers
The 16 passengers who boarded the aircraft in Guadalajara were:
José María Sainz Aldrete (edible oils industrialist)
José Luis Arregui Zepeda, brother of civil engineer Felipe Arregui Zepeda, future builder of Estadio Jalisco,[4] financed by the Banco de Zamora and the Compañía General de Aceptaciones de Monterrey
Dionisio Fernández Sahagún, co-founder of the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara (UAG)[5][6] and father of journalist José Antonio Fernández Salazar (1 February 1956 – 5 September 2018)
American Scientist Bell M. Shimada (Seattle, Washington, 17 January 1922 – Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco, 2 June 1958). The last two were heading to Acapulco to join a Scottish Expedition studying the currents of the Pacific Ocean, in connection with the International Geophysical Year 1957–1958.
Pilot and co-pilot: Captains Alfonso Ceceña Gastélum and Roberto Herrera, respectively.
At the crash site, there was looting by locals.[2]
Causes
The weather conditions were adverse, with heavy rain, but the cause of the accident was mechanical failures of the four-engine aircraft.[7]