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Plane crash kills U.S., Mexican officials

by apple_jamz | September 16, 2008 at 02:55 pm | 137 views | add comment | 0 recommendations

Four people are dead, including a top US and Mexican water official after their plane crashed in norther Mexico near the US border earlier today.

A Cessna small aircraft carrying the Mexican and U.S. heads of the International Water and Boundary Commission - Arturo Herrera and Carlos Marin, respectively - crashed in the desert near the Mexican border city of Ojinaga, said Jose Reyes Baeza Terrazas.

The executive director of the Rio Grande Council, Jake Brisbin, and the pilot, who was not identified, also died in the crash.

The pilot had signalled a problem after taking off Monday from El Paso, Mexico, heading for Presidio, Texas.U.S. authorities found the wreckage of the plane, Terrazas said.
The water officials had been inspecting damage to a dam caused by a flood from the Conchos River.