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Two Dead as Light Plane Crashes on Santa Isabel–Ánahuac Road in Chihuahua

Mexico’s civil aviation authority has opened a technical probe focused on whether the aircraft struck high‑voltage lines.

Avioneta se desploma en Santa Isabel, Chihuahua: dos fallecidos y corte de energía eléctrica
Avioneta se desploma en Santa Isabel, Chihuahua
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Overview

  • The victims were identified by authorities as pilot Armando Schmitt and copilot Jesús Andrés Leyva.
  • The aircraft, reported as registration XB-HPJ, went down near km 2 of the Santa Isabel–Ánahuac route close to the Santa Isabel River, with the incident logged around 13:44 local time by the C7 of Cuauhtémoc.
  • The impact damaged transmission infrastructure and caused power outages in nearby communities as crews worked to restore service.
  • Police at the municipal, state and ministerial levels, along with Mexican Army personnel and emergency teams, secured the site to facilitate evidence collection.
  • Investigators from the Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil began peritajes with the preliminary power-line contact hypothesis under review and no final cause determined yet, including assessments of weather, aircraft condition and operational factors.