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    Mexicana de Aviación Flight 940, operated by Mexicana de Aviación, was a scheduled international flight from Mexico City to Los Angeles with stopovers...
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  • their captors after some of their demands were met. March 31, 1986: Mexicana Flight 940, a 727-200 (registration XA-MEM) crashed near Maravatío in the Mexican...
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    control tower. In March 1986, a Boeing 727, Mexicana Flight 940, en route to Puerto Vallarta caught fire in-flight and crashed in the mountains of western...
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  • of two Boeing 727s: the 1969 crash of Mexicana de Aviación Flight 704 and that of Mexicana de Aviación Flight 940 in 1986. The crash was one of three fatal...
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    Swissair Flight 111 – another in-flight fire incident suffered by Swissair Mexicana Flight 940 – A 1986 crash involving landing gear fire Propair Flight 420...
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    On 4 June 1969, Mexicana de Aviación Flight 704, a Boeing 727-64 airliner registered XA-SEL, was destroyed near El Carmen, some 20 miles north of the...
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    28 September 1992. Retrieved 27 May 2013. "ASN Accident Description (Mexicana-940)". Aviation Safety Network. 31 March 1986. Retrieved 27 May 2013. "ASN...
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  • with Cerro del Fraile, killing all 79 people on board. Mexicana Flight 940 suffered in-flight fire due to maintenance error, leading to loss of hydraulics...
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    in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala. On 31 March 1986, the Mexicana Flight 940 crashed in the state of Michoacán, killing everyone on board. Initially...
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    Australian policewoman to be killed in the line of duty. March 31 – Mexicana Flight 940 crashes near Maravatío, Mexico, killing 167. April – The government...
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    behind Mexicana de Aviación Flight 940, and the third-deadliest on Japanese soil behind Japan Air Lines Flight 123 and China Airlines Flight 140. ANA...
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  • Boeing 727-264 Mexicana Flight 940 XA-SOC McDonnell Douglas DC-9 Aeroméxico Flight 229 XA-TKN McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31 TAESA Flight 725 XA-TUE Airbus...
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  • operating after being upgraded from a streetcar line. March 31: Mexicana Flight 940 September 11: Centro Escolar el Encino established. Belisario Domínguez...
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    In aviation, an in-flight fire is a type of aviation accident where an aircraft catches on fire in-flight. They are considered one of the most dangerous...
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    McDonnell Douglas. The DC-10 was intended to succeed the DC-8 for long-range flights. It first flew on August 29, 1970; it was introduced on August 5, 1971...
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  • 13 on board. The wreckage was found on March 10. March 31 – Mexicana de Aviación Flight 940, a Boeing 727, crashes into high ground near Santiago Maravatío...
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    Davies and Birtles 1999, p. 62. Jackson 1987, p. 459. "Comet 4Cs for Mexicana." Flight International, 76, 6 November 1959, p. 491. Retrieved 26 April 2012...
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    Alaska Airlines, Air Canada, Alitalia, LTU, Northwest, US Airways, Western, Mexicana, and Aeromar, have also operated at this airport. Between 1970 and 1973...
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    is owned by 94 Country, Inc. It transmits as "La Pantera" ("The Panther") 940 AM. KPCN-LP is a low-power community radio station owned and operated by...
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    Vol. 1. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. pp. 356–357. ISBN 978-1-57607-940-9. Pollen, John Hungerford (1912). "Society of Jesus". In Herbermann, Charles...
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  • The center landing gear tire of the Mexicana Boeing 727-264 Veracruz, operating as Flight 940, explodes in flight after being inappropriately filled with...
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    of low-mass stars in luminous elliptical galaxies". Nature. 468 (7326): 940–942. arXiv:1009.5992. Bibcode:2010Natur.468..940V. doi:10.1038/nature09578...
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    to the Triangulum Galaxy range from 2,380×10^3 to 3,070×10^3 ly (730 to 940 kpc) (or 2.38 to 3.07 Mly), with most estimates since the year 2000 lying...
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    to 1.424 lb), averaging some 523 g (1.153 lb), and female weights of 649–940 g (1.431–2.072 lb), averaging 740 g (1.63 lb), this species is nearly the...
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  • because of bankruptcy and debts owed to creditors. 1986 – Mexicana de Aviación Flight 940 crashes into the Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range near...
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    accidents and all kinds of incidents, major or minor, by airline company with flight number, location, date, aircraft type, and cause. This list is dynamic and...
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    Pancho Voice of the Whistler (1945) - Tony, Fruit Peddler (uncredited) Mexicana (1945) - Policeman Yolanda and the Thief (1945) - Police Official on Train...
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  • airlines were all at Burbank except for Mexicana's three departures a week from Glendale; in late 1946 most airline flights moved to LAX, but Burbank always...
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  • North America (Canada: Canadian Forces Air Command; Mexico: Fuerza Aérea Mexicana (Mexican Air Force), Fuerza Aeronaval (Mexican Naval Aviation); United...
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    winds of 145 mph (233 km/h) and a pressure of 940 mbar (940 hPa; 28 inHg). About 12 hours after the flight, the winds of Jimena dropped below major hurricane...
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