Americans’ plane stolen in Mexico
Gunmen robbed a family of U.S. tourists of its small plane Tuesday in Mexico, police said.
The robbers struck as the American couple and their two daughters, ages 6 and 8, were about to take off from a hotel airstrip in the Baja California beach town of Mulege.
Detective Juan Carlos de Jesus Jimenez said the thieves pulled a car in front of the six-seat Cessna Stationair, knocked out one of the craft’s windows and forced the family out at gunpoint. They then set fire to the car and flew off in the plane.
U.S. officials said they had heard reports of the incident but had not yet been in contact with the victims.
The plane’s identification number matched a craft registered to a firm in Boise, Idaho.
Small aircraft are commonly used by Mexican drug cartels to smuggle narcotics.
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