4 US Air Force aircraft make emergency landing on the Baja Peninsula

The Defense Ministry (Sedena) connected Thursday acknowledged that it had authorized overflight and exigency landings for 4 U.S. craft that landed that time successful Mexican territory.

The U.S. Air Force craft progressive successful Thursday’s incidental were 2 Hercules tanker craft for in-flight refueling and 2 HH-60W helicopters.

As successful the erstwhile incidental successful January, the 2 planes that landed Thursday are reportedly Hercules tanker aircraft, often utilized for in-flight refueling during hunt and rescue missions. (Lockhheed)

In a societal media post, Sedena said it “authorized the overflight successful nationalist airspace of 2 Hercules tanker craft and 2 helicopters from the U.S. Air Force, which were taking portion successful the rescue of a diligent from a vas astatine oversea 400 nautical miles westbound of [the Baja Peninsula].”

No details were provided regarding wherever the planes landed, however agelong they were wrong Mexican airspace oregon for however overmuch clip they remained connected the ground.

This incidental comes a small much than 2 weeks aft the landing of a U.S. Air Force level successful Toluca, conscionable 65 kilometers (40 miles) westbound of Mexico City. It was allegedly linked to grooming activities that had not been antecedently reported publicly, and generated immoderate controversy.

At the time, President Claudia Sheinbaum stated that the introduction of U.S. subject craft into the state would lone beryllium authorized nether “special conditions.”

Days earlier, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration urged U.S. craft operators to “exercise caution” erstwhile flying implicit the eastbound Pacific Ocean adjacent Mexico, Central America and parts of South America, citing “military activities.”

In response, Sheinbaum sought to quell concerns related to the 2 incidents, saying that the U.S. “wasn’t conducting immoderate subject enactment successful nationalist territory.”

In an authoritative bulletin issued connected Thursday, Sedena said that the authorization was granted “in accordance with the Coordination Guidelines for Authorizing Overflights successful Mexican Airspace and Landing of Foreign Aircraft.”

Sedena besides reaffirmed its “commitment to planetary practice to safeguard the lives of radical and determination security,” portion citing the principles of “reciprocity, shared and differentiated responsibility, communal spot and respect for sovereign decisions and territories.”

Authorization for overflights and landings successful Mexican airspace indispensable strictly adhere to Federal Civil Aviation Agency regulations, which mostly necessitate obtaining permits 48 hours successful advance.

With reports from El Universal, Milenio, Sin Embargo and Nación321