Aviation

5.11, crash, fatalities

Mexico: a Learjet 45 operated by the Mexican government, crashed at Lomas de Chapultepec, Mexico City killing 13 people, including interior minister Juan Camilo Mourino and two other top government officials. Eight fatalities were passengers and crew from the aircraft. Also killed were former Deputy Attorney General Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos and Miguel Monterubio Cubas, the director of social communication. Forty people on the ground were injured. Mexican radio reported an air traffic controller as saying that the government Learjet was coming in to land at Mexico City airport when it hit the ground between tall buildings in a busy business district. The force of the crash set two dozen cars ablaze and pieces of wreckage were strewn across a wide area.