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Chihuahua: 2 Die in Plane Crash -- UPDATED
2010-12-23
Posted by: badanov

Google Translate Updated with the names of the victims, the aircraft type and other information

Two officials were killed in a light plane crash in the mountains of far western Chihuahua Wednesday evening, according to Mexican news accounts.

Ricardo Lozano Robledo, the pilot who was working for the Mexican national attorney general's office (PGR), and Mexican Army Lieutenant Oscar Mayo Roma were killed when their Cessna 206 aircraft went down in the Ocampo municipality in Chihuahua.

The pilot crashed while attempting a landing at the Pino Alto airfield.

The officials were conducting surveys to locate drug growing areas in the Sierras and were part of the Mexican 2nd Battalion, 42nd Military Zone drug eradication effort in that area.

Officials say the crash was an accident.