The inaugural flight of Mexicana de Aviación to Tulum, with a cost of 399 pesos for some passengers, was expensive, after the Boeing 737-800 from AIFA could not land at its destination and did so in Mérida, 260 kilometers away. from Tulum Airport.
The weather and jungle conditions between Felipe Carrillo Puerto and Tulum generated a fog bank and minimal visibility on the runway, which caused the diversion of flight 1788 with 178 passengers on board.
Airport authorities limited themselves to reporting that the flight was diverted due to weather conditions; However, Francisco Canul, an experienced journalist of Mayan origin, who knows the jungle area, told Sol de México that “In the winter season the airport will have this problem, since it is located in the heart of the Mayan jungle.”
He specified that from the head of Tulum to the International Airport on federal highway 307 there is a distance of 32 kilometers and then you have to go 16 kilometers into the jungle to reach the air terminal.
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In winter, he noted, there is a lot of fog in the area and proof of this was the tragic accident this morning of Tuesday, December 26, on the Tulum-Playa del Carmen highway, where, due to the fog, a compact car crashed behind a trailer causing the death of three people.
The Tulum airport was built 32 kilometers from Tulum and 80 kilometers from Felipe Carrillo Puerto, with a 16-kilometer journey into the jungle, where it rains a lot and the fog banks are denser this season.
Upon arriving in Quintana Roo, the Mexicana de Aviación Boeing 737-800 performed the holding pattern – circle flights – but could not land due to lack of visibility even though it was already 11:00, local time.
Francisco Canul assures that fog has been the cause of many car accidents in this area and that in winter fog banks are more dangerous for driving on the Tulum-Felipe Carrillo Puerto stretch.
For their part, military authorities have described the Tulum International Airport as a “Green” airport, while President Andrés Manuel López Obrador baptized it as the Jungle Airport.
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On the other hand, Mrs. Celia Espinosa Cedillo, originally from Cancun, who boasted on social networks about the flight for 399 pesos to Tulum, expressed her happiness at traveling on the inaugural flight of Mexicana de Aviación, however as a sign of omen she said ” Until I get to Tulum, I’m not going to believe it.”
2023-12-26 20:46:09
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