Culiacán Rosales – Cabo San Lucas

On November 5, 2007 at 08:50 AM, Culiacán Rosales – Cabo San Lucas experienced a crash involving Cessna 208B Grand Caravan, operated by Calafia Airlines, with the event recorded near Culiacán Rosales Sinaloa.

The flight was categorized as scheduled revenue flight and the reported phase was takeoff (climb) at a airport (less than 10 km from airport) crash site.

15 people were known to be on board, 0 fatalities were recorded, 15 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 0.0%.

Crew on board: 1, crew fatalities: 0, passengers on board: 14, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

Shortly after takeoff from runway 02, the pilot initiated a 180 turn when the aircraft stalled and crashed in an open field located one km from the airport, coming to rest upside down. All 15 occupants were injured and the aircraft was destroyed.

Aircraft reference details include registration XA-UBC, MSN 208B-1046, year of manufacture 2004.

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