Cargo aircraft crashes in northern Mexico; 5 dead

Posted 2010/04/14 at 1:31 pm EDT

MONTERREY, Mexico, Apr. 14, 2010 (Reuters) — A cargo aircraft crashed late on Tuesday near the airport in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey, killing five people, Mexican emergency authorities reported.

A federal policewoman guards the site where a AeroUnion Airbus A-300 cargo aircraft crashed near the Mariano Escobedo international airport in Monterrey April 14, 2010. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo

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The Airbus A-300 aircraft, operated by privately held AeroUnion, crashed near a major road leading to the airport. Some debris from the wrecked jet landed on the grounds of the airport itself, Mexican media reported.

"At present we believe there may be five people dead, two from the crew and three on the ground, but nothing is confirmed yet," said an official at the state emergency authority who declined to be named because he was not authorized to speak with the news media.

Partially burned wreckage from the aircraft was visible on the road leading into the airport in an area near several hotels, a Reuters witness reported.

The cause of the accident was not immediately clear.

(Reporting by Tomas Bravo in Monterrey and Armando Tovar and Robert Campell in Mexico City; editing by Todd Eastham)

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