Faced with a helicopter crash, they rule out a possible attack

I want to comment that the pilot heroically maneuvered to land in a vacant lot and not in a populated place.”

Teresa Jiménez, governor of Aguascalientes.

The head of the Aguascalientes Public Security Secretariat, Porfirio Sánchez Mendoza, and four other people died yesterday morning after the helicopter in which they were traveling collapsed; local authorities announced the start of the pertinent investigations to determine the possible causes, which they attributed to an accident.

Meanwhile, the Secretary of the Interior, Adán Augusto López Hernández, and the office manager of the Aguascalientes Secretariat, Manuel Alonso García, ruled out the hypothesis of a possible attack against Porfirio Sánchez Mendoza, and four other people who were traveling in the helicopter Águila 1 of the corporation and which collapsed on a property located in the municipality of Jesús María.

From Guanajuato, the head of Segob said that after the crash of the aircraft, he spoke with the state governor, Teresa Jiménez, who told him that the State Prosecutor’s Office and the agencies in charge of security are already carrying out the corresponding expert reports and for this reason he stated your confidence that every lead will be investigated.

The person in charge of the dispatch, Manuel Alonso García, indicated that the crew did not report any altercation and the personnel on the ground did not identify any type of attack against the air vehicle.

witness versions

However, contrary to official versions, witnesses to the incident collected by local media expressed having seen a group of at least six motorcyclists shoot the aircraft with long weapons, which would have been hit by the propeller, which would have caused it to fall. .

Due to the events, the governor of Aguascalientes, Teresa Jiménez, issued a message in which she confirmed the death of the public official and said that “everything indicates that it is an accident.”

“The pertinent investigations have begun to determine the possible causes of this accident; however, everything indicates that it is an accident. We must wait for the results of the corresponding expert opinion, and we will always do so by telling the truth, ”he told the media.

He explained that the state secretary for Public Security, Porfirio Javier Sánchez Mendoza, was traveling in the helicopter; the pilot Olegario Andrade Zamorano; Captain Víctor Manuel Valdés Sánchez; the gunner Juan Humberto Rincón Martínez and the gunner Alejandro Serafín Guerrero.

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