La Paz – Culiacán Rosales

On December 30, 2006 at 05:30 PM, La Paz – Culiacán Rosales experienced a crash involving Rockwell Sabreliner 40, operated by Jett Paquetería, with the event recorded near Culiacán Rosales Sinaloa.

The flight was categorized as cargo and the reported phase was landing (descent or approach) at a city crash site.

2 people were known to be on board, 2 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 2, crew fatalities: 2, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. Following an uneventful cargo flight from La Paz (Mexico), the crew was approaching Culiacán Rosales-Federal de Bachigualato Airport. On final, the aircraft crashed onto several houses located less than one km from runway the threshold. Both pilots were killed while there were no casualties on the ground despite several houses were destroyed by fire. For unknown reasons, the crew was completing the approach at an unsafe altitude.

Aircraft reference details include registration XA-TNP, MSN 265-62, year of manufacture 1962.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 24.7956°, -107.3848°.