CEN13WA248 · Beech King Air 300
Beech King Air 300 · Accident
From General Leobardo C. Ruiz International Airport (ZCL) to Mexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)
Event
- NTSB case
- CEN13WA248
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Final · DGAC final report
- API-reported fatalities
- 6 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Government
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Beech King Air 300
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft KING AIR
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- XCLMV
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From General Leobardo C. Ruiz International Airport (ZCL), ZacatecasTo Mexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX), Mexico City
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Public Aircraft
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Not recorded
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Not recorded
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Documented · Crash site as stated in the Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil (DGAC), Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes, Mexico: Comisión Investigadora y Dictaminadora de Accidentes e Incidentes de Aviación (CIDAIA) final report. No uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
Investigated by the authorities of Mexico; the NTSB took part and publishes no narrative.
Sources
NTSB record CEN13WA248
- Event ID
- 20130501X14824
- Case number
- CEN13WA248
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (5)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: b9c05fbedcf723551825ceb8798a4725b675a36a95394b09144d49fdc1295025; retrieved 2026-09-14T15:56:16.456Z.
- Checked against the Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil (DGAC), Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes, Mexico: Comisión Investigadora y Dictaminadora de Accidentes e Incidentes de Aviación (CIDAIA) final report on 2026-09-18. The report states the same date, ground fatalities, fatalities, registration and damage. Taken from the report: place, crash-site coordinates, departure, destination, operator and type of operation. Not checked: flight number and aircraft type.