Aeroservicios Guerrero S.A. de C. V. Cessna 208B accident
Cessna 208B · Accident en route
From Loreto International Airport (LTO) to XCUA · Ciudad Constitución, Baja California Sur
Event
- NTSB case
- CEN14WA029
- 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
- 14 · 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
- Charter & commuter
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Cessna 208B
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 208
- Category
- Airplane
- 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
- XA-TXM
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Loreto International Airport (LTO), Loreto, Baja California SurTo XCUA · Ciudad Constitución, Baja California Sur
- 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
- Non-U.S., Commercial
- 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
- En route · climb to cruise
- 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
- Unknown or undetermined
- 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.
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On October 14, 2013, about 1401 universal time coordinated, a Cessna 208B, XA-TXM, was destroyed when it impacted terrain near Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico. The pilot and thirteen passengers on board were fatally injured. The flight originated from the Loreto International Airport, (MMLT), and was destined for Ciudad Constitución Airport (MMDA), Ciudad Constitución, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
This investigation is under the jurisdiction of the government of Mexico. Any further information regarding the investigation can be obtained from the Direccion General De Aeronautica Civil (DGAC), Direccion De Investigacion De Accidentes E Incidentes De Aviacion, Mexico, at:
Direccion General De Aeronautica Civil (DGAC), Direccion De Investigacion De Accidentes E Incidentes De Aviacion Providencia No 807, 70 Piso 03100 Mexico D. F. Telephone: (52) 44 4044 6405 Facsimile: (52) 55 5523 6275
This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information released by, or obtained from, the DGAC of Mexico.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CEN14WA029
- Event ID
- 20131030X93511
- Case number
- CEN14WA029
- 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.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: coordinates. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 61c03eef03de3c66a3cdb0b57c42c2e29bdad660f3188b261e54e4076735cce9; retrieved 2026-09-14T16:06:31.700Z.
- 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, fatalities, registration, operator and damage. Taken from the report: ground fatalities, departure, destination and type of operation. Not checked: place, crash-site coordinates, flight number and aircraft type.