An Aeromexico plane has crashed in the northern Mexican state of Durango with 101 people on board, injuring at least 85 people.
The airline said flight number 2431 was an Embraer 190 with a capacity for 100 passengers and was bound for Mexico City when it crashed.
Authorities said 85 people were injured in the accident but nobody died.
The head of Mexico’s Transport Department said “the plane fell upon takeoff”.
Gerardo Ruiz Eparza said there were 97 passengers and four crew members aboard the plane.
TV images showed the tail of a plane bearing an Aeromexico logo emerging from scrubland and a column of smoke rising into the sky.
A reporter for network Milenio said some passengers had survived and walked to a highway to seek help.
Shortly after taking off, the plane made an emergency landing about six miles (10km) from the airport, Alejandro Cardoza, a spokesman for the state’s civil protection agency, said on local television.
The civil defence office of Durango state said the accident occurred in a field near the airport for the state capital, also named Durango.
The operator of the airport, Grupo Aeroportuario Centro Norte, attributed the crash to bad weather conditions, citing preliminary reports.
The state’s governor, Jose Rosas Aispuro, said on local television that the plane was bound for Mexico City.
“The plane was taking off,” said Mr Rosas Aispuro, going on to say witnesses told him there was “a bang” and then without warning the plane was on the ground.
