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BajaNomad
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Calafia Airlines flight to GN missing
December 24:
'Calafia Airlines flight A7872, took off from Hermosillo, Mexico, at around 07:00 LT (GMT-7) in the direction of Guerrero Negro Airport, where it
should have landed at 08:10 LT (GMT-7).
After takeoff, flying over the Sea of Cortez approximately 89 kilometers (48 nautical miles) from the departure airport, contact with the aircraft was
lost.'
https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20191224-...
The pilot has been identified as Alfonso Palomares Navarrete, along with a single passenger identified as Carlos Omar Zárate Camacho of Santa
Rosalía, Baja California Sur.
https://mvsnoticias.com/noticias/estados/desaparece-avioneta...
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'ElbuenChabe (@chabelobaez), Replying to @UlisesGtzR: Yo trabaja para una mina ubicada en Santa Rosalia y varias veces y tomaba esa ruta Guerrero
Negro-Hermosillo por Calafia. En una ocasión salimos de GN con poca 🌧 y con los vientos la avioneta giro a quedae casi vertical totalmente.'
Translation: ''I work for a mine located in Santa Rosalia and several times I took that route Guerrero Negro-Hermosillo through Calafia. On one
occasion we left GN with little 🌧 and with the winds the plane turned almost completely vertical.'
https://twitter.com/chabelobaez/status/1209607738856263683
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bajaric
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A straight line from Hermosillo to Guerrero Negro would have taken it over Punta San Francisquito, then across the area north of El Arco. Remote
area, not a good place to crash assuming they made it that far. Maybe somebody near Punta San Francisquito should take a boat out and search for
survivors.
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pacificobob
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Aircraft type? C-208?
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radar contact lost around here:
28°46'53.84"N, 112°30'52.50"W
Harald Pietschmann
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My friends fly Calafia from Guaymas to Loreto often.
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advrider
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Anymore info on this? I haven't seen anything on the news?
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NO SURVIVORS OBSERVED😭😭😭
Debris of the Cessna Caravan of the AeroCalafia company were found this afternoon 47.7 miles from the international airport in the city of Hermosillo.
From Facebook TalkBaja group:
In this aircraft was traveling as a passenger the young lawyer from Santa Rosalia Carlos Omar Zarate Camacho as well as the pilot identified as
Alfonso Palomares Navarrete.
They were wanted since the morning of December 24, when they were heading to Guerrero Negro. It is noted that there was bad weather at the time of the
aircraft's take-off.
Today, investigations will begin into what appears to be an accident in which there are no survivors.
reality\'s never been of much use out here...
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Sad to hear this. It really is a small craft. May they RIP.
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Not that small
OK.... Small if you think a 737 is a small airliner,
But the Caravan is the real workhorse of the Third World
Lots of mission agencies use this across Africa and remote areas
Single engine, but tons of lifting power
We flew in one out to an outpost in Irian Jaya and there were six of us on board, plus the floor was full of roofing sheets, and even an iron cook
stove being hauled out to the village.
I feel as safe in a Caravan as a 737 MAX (Lousy example, I know)
Trust me, this baby is the real deal
Don't blame pilot error (taking off in bad weather) on the aircraft
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Smaller than a typical commercial jet. But at 13 pax capacity, a fairly large single engine prop plane. The Caravan is used all over mex as a puddle
jumper between cities/places not served by commercial jets.
Woke!
“...ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America
will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
Prefered gender pronoun: the royal we
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Don Pisto
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Quote: Originally posted by lencho  | Which is out over the water, yet if I understand correctly the crash site
was on land near the coast somewhere around Miguel Alemán. Had he turned back towards Hermosillo? 
[Edited on 12-28-2019 by lencho] |
they almost made it to the sea.....here's a map showing the route and crash site
https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20191224-...
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thebajarunner
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"Almost"???
I flew for 25 years, got my IFR rating
Never heard the word "almost" in reference to aviation
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to the society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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Yeah, not sure almost fits in aviation! A lot of things that you can almost make work but I don't want a plane that I'm on to be one of them. I had a
friend with an ultralight powered by a VW motor, I had a lot of VW'S that almost made a trip! I never went up with him, he never crashed but I'm OK
with missing that adventure..
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There's Bad Weather ..................
And then there's BAD weather !
How bad was it ? Does anybody here KNOW ?
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Career pilot. J3 to 747. I know 3 pilot who took their last flight in a c208[caravan].
The wing was designed to be fast and fuel efficient. A complete departure from other single engine cessnas. A lot of compromise was present in the
design in the interest of making the launch customer happy. [Fedex]
If that flight got high enough the find some icing conditions, that could have been a factor. More likely "controled flight into terrain " might be a
cause.
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Pilots have been pushing bad weather since aviation began. Some pay the ultimate price but it still happens in spite of all the examples. A fellow
Lancair owner tried to get around some really bad weather in Idaho a few months ago. This was the result.
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Don Pisto
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looks like this plane had past problems?
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https://www.expreso.com.mx/seccion/sonora/140257-encuentran-...
https://www.elsudcaliforniano.com.mx/policiaca/localizan-avi...
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