A small plane carrying 14 passengers has disappeared in northern Mexico. The search for the plane has been suspended due to bad weather resulting from tropical storm Octave. The tropical storm has brought with it heavy rains and is currently making its way toward Mexico from the Pacific. The Associated Press reports Enrique Avalos of the Communications and Transportation Department in Mexico says the plane's pilot lost contact with air traffic control shortly after takeoff on Monday. The Cessna 208B took off from the beach town of Loreto, which AP says is a popular tourist town for Americans and Canadians.
The search was suspended on Monday but reports are saying the search will resume on Tuesday. At 7pm Monday night Reuters spoke with Carlos Enriquez, the head of the Baja California emergency services. Enriquez said "A marine plane was going to go out but the conditions right now are no good for the search. We've suspended things until conditions change." Enriquez also told Reuters that the plane had only enough fuel for a total of two and a half hours. Residents of the Baja California area told officials they had seen the plane flying low shortly before it disappeared.
The storm is expected to hit Baja California, Durango, Sinaloa, Sinaloa, Sonora and Chihuahua with heavy rains and winds up to 35 mph. Another storm, tropical storm Priscilla which is headed for the southern tip of Baja. Last month Mexico was hit with a pair of dual storms that killed 157 people.
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