6pm, 6 passengers, 6 row houses hit, 6 cars were on fire, 6 people on the ground sent to hospital. Even this post was put on this site at 6:06pm which linked to 6ABC. Wow what a coincidence.
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It may have already been on fire. What if, since this was a Mexican plane and crew, as soon as they took off one of the crew lit up a cigarette near the patient - who was likely on oxygen? Maybe the sparks or flame on the lighter sparked a fire that caused an oxygen canister to explode. It probably didn't happen that way, and I don't know how long it would take to disable the plane - but I guess it is possible. Who knows if the operators of this plane follow the same safety measures we do in the US.
I do, however, know that in Mexico they take a lot of shortcuts. I remember a business trip I took about 20 years ago to Mexico City. I watched a federal officer light his cigarette off of an incandescent light bulb in the Bolsa de Valores (The Mexican Stock Exchange).
A couple days later my team had a day off so we wanted to go visit the pyramids at Teotihuacan. There was a military parade going on (yearly Independence Day parade) and our driver couldn't get across to head out of town. He got out, went over to a cop standing in the intersection, handed the cop something, got back in the SUV, and waited about 30 seconds. The cop went out into the parade, stopped the military vehicles that were passing by, and we drove through. I asked the driver what just happened and he said he gave the cop a dollar to get us through.
If a military parade can be stopped for a dollar, what other shortcuts do they do?