On thisday October 31 1979 in Mexico City, Mexico, 73 people died when a Western Air Lines flight struck a vehicle after landing on a closed runway. Western Airlines Flight 2605 was an international scheduled passenger flight from Los Angeles to Mexico City. On October 31. The aircraft used for the flight, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10, crashed at Mexico City's Benito Juarez International Airport in early morning fog after landing on a runway closed for maintenance. 72 of the 88 people on board, plus 1 person on the ground, died. The event was the third-deadliest aviation accident to occur on Mexican soil, after Mexicana Flight 704 and Flight 940, and the seventh-deadliest one involving a DC-10.
The crash of Flight 2605 was one of three fatal McDonnell Douglas DC-10 accidents in 1979, occurring just over five months after the crash of American Airlines Flight 191 at O'Hare International Airport and less than a month before the crash of Air New Zealand Flight 901 on Mount Erebus.
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