On June 2, 1958, the Lockheed L-749 Constellation operating the flight crashed near Guadalajara killing all 46 occupants.

[2] The aircraft was a four-engine (four-propeller) Lockheed Constellation with registration number XA-MEV, owned by Aeronaves de México, now Aeroméxico.

After taking off from Guadalajara International Airport at 21:53 local time, it crashed into Cerro Latillas, a hill in the municipality of Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, at 22:06.

The passengers included:[4][1] The last two were heading to Acapulco to join a Scottish Expedition studying the currents of the Pacific Ocean, in connection with the International Geophysical Year 1957–1958.

[2] The weather conditions were adverse, with heavy rain, but the cause of the accident was mechanical failures of the four-engine aircraft.