Two Mexican oil company executives were among 13 people who died when a business jet crashed heading from Las Vegas to Mexico over the weekend.
The plane was located in a mountainous region of Ocampo, according to to the Coahuila state government.
Martha Isabel Garcia Lagunes, Gary Amauri Vela Garcia, Manuel Alejandro Sepulveda Gonzalez, and Monica Leticia Salinas Trevino were also believed to have been on the ill-fated plane.
Three crew members also reportedly died.
A photograph published on local television network Milenio showed what it said were the burnt remnants of the plane, broken into pieces, spread over charred earth.
In a statement, Canada’s Bombardier Inc identified the jet as a Challenger 601 and said the plane had gone missing about 150 nautical miles from the northern Mexican city of Monclova.
Alvarez issued a statement about the crash on Twitter.
“I deeply lament the terrible accident of the plane coming from Vegas,” he wrote on Twitter on May 6, according to a translation. “I’m deeply grateful for the support of all the people who travel to see my fights. My prayers are with their families.”
A Radio Centro correspondent said of the crash, “The Secretariat of Public Security of Coahuila and authorities of Nuevo Leon have begun searches for the private Jet Bombardier Challenger 601 plane, registration N601VH, that flew from Las Vegas to Monterrey, with which contact was lost on Sunday afternoon.”
Previous reports said that 14 people died in the crash.
“The land is rather mountainous … so they’re going to take a while longer to arrive,” Orta said.