'We threw ourselves to the floor': Mexican passenger plane caught in cartel crossfire

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'We threw ourselves to the floor': Mexican passenger plane caught in cartel crossfire
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'That's an attack plane, Dad,' said one of David Tellez's young children as they spotted Mexican military aircraft touching down alongside their Aeromexico passenger plane early on Thursday.

Chaotic scenes inside the Aeromexico 165 Culiacan, Sinaloa-Mexico City flight following reports of gunfire hitting the plane's fuselage, as an apparent reaction by a gang, following the detention of Mexican drug gang leader Ovidio Guzman, a son of incarcerated kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who has been arrested by Mexican authorities, in Culiacan, Mexico, January 5, 2023 in this still image obtained from social media video.

Tellez, 42, was traveling with his wife and children, aged 7, 4 and 1, after spending Christmas with family. Yet, just as flight AM165 to Mexico City was about to take off, a succession of military planes landed on the airstrip. A video circulating on social media, appearing to capture the same incident, showed passengers crouching low below their seats as a child cried.

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