| date = 2 June 1958
| date = 2 June 1958
| summary = Mechanical failures<ref name=”Info29052008″>{{cite web |access-date=31 March 2022 |date=29 May 2008 |periodical=El Informador |title=IN MEMORIAM: 2 de junio de 1958: “La peor tragedia de la aviación nacional” |url=https://www.informador.mx/Entretenimiento/IN-MEMORIAM-2-de-junio-de-1958-La-peor-tragedia-de-la-aviacion-nacional-20080529-0099.html |archive-date=31 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331183334/https://www.informador.mx/Entretenimiento/IN-MEMORIAM-2-de-junio-de-1958-La-peor-tragedia-de-la-aviacion-nacional-20080529-0099.html |url-status=live }}<!– auto-translated from Spanish by Module:CS1 translator –></ref>
| summary = Mechanical failures<ref name=”Info29052008″>{{cite web |access-date=31 March 2022 |date=29 May 2008 |periodical=El Informador |title=IN MEMORIAM: 2 de junio de 1958: “La peor tragedia de la aviación nacional” |url=https://www.informador.mx/Entretenimiento/IN-MEMORIAM-2-de-junio-de-1958-La-peor-tragedia-de-la-aviacion-nacional-20080529-0099.html |archive-date=31 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331183334/https://www.informador.mx/Entretenimiento/IN-MEMORIAM-2-de-junio-de-1958-La-peor-tragedia-de-la-aviacion-nacional-20080529-0099.html |url-status=live }}<!– auto-translated from Spanish by Module:CS1 translator –></ref>
| site = Cerro Latillas, west of Guadalajara International Airport, in the Municipality of Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco, Mexico<br />{{Coord|20|29|21|N|103|28|05|W}}
| site = Cerro Latillas, west of Guadalajara International Airport, in the Municipality of Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco, Mexico<br />{{Coord|20|||N|103|||W}}
| aircraft_type = Lockheed Constellation L-749
| aircraft_type = Lockheed Constellation L-749
| operator = [[Aeroméxico|Aeronaves de México]]
| operator = [[Aeroméxico|Aeronaves de México]]
1958 aviation incident in Mexico
Aeroméxico Flight 111 was a scheduled commercial flight from Tijuana to Acapulco with stops in Mazatlán, Guadalajara, and Mexico City. On June 2, 1958, the Lockheed L-749 Constellation operating the flight crashed near Guadalajara killing all 46 occupants.[2]
The aircraft was a four-engine (four-propeller) Lockheed Constellation with registration number XA-MEV, owned by Aeronaves de México, now Aeroméxico. After taking off from Guadalajara International Airport at 21:53 local time, it crashed into Cerro Latillas, a hill in the municipality of Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, at 22:06.[3] The aircraft carried 39 passengers and seven crew members. All perished.
The passengers included:[4][1]
- José Luis Arregui Zepeda, brother of civil engineer Felipe Arregui Zepeda, future builder of Estadio Jalisco,[5] 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)[6][7] and father of journalist José Antonio Fernández Salazar (1 February 1956 – 5 September 2018)
- American Oceanographer Townsend Cromwell (Boston, Massachusetts, 3 November 1922 – Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco, 2 June 1958)
- 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]
The weather conditions were adverse, with heavy rain, but the cause of the accident was mechanical failures of the four-engine aircraft.[4]
