During the military parade to celebrate the 185th anniversary of the
Mexican War of Independence, among other aircraft, squadrons of
Northrop F-5s and
Lockheed T-33s participated, flying in their respective formations. At 11:44 a.m., the Northrop F-5E with the registration 4003 piloted by Captain Héctor Ricardo Trejo Flores hit the Lockheed T-33 with the registration JE-050 in flight, which was piloted by General Gonzalo Curiel García and Lieutenant Gustavo Enrique Pérez Estrada. This impact generated a chain reaction that caused the successive collision against the Lockheed T-33 with the registration JE-036 piloted by Major José Rivera Gutiérrez and Lieutenant Gerardo Ceballos Peraza, the Lockheed T-33 with the registration JE-009 and the Lockheed T-33 with the registration JE-049, this one piloted by Lieutenant Mario Humberto Sánchez García and Lieutenant Jorge Vergara Mogollón. JE-009 was lightly damaged and was able to return to the Santa Lucía Air Base with its crew unharmed, however, 4003, whose pilot ejected but did not survive, crashed in the
Huixquilucan area. The rest of the aircraft crashed in
Cuajimalpa, where only both pilots of JE-036 managed to eject, though one of them died. Currently, the Mascota Airport in the state of
Jalisco bears his name. == References ==