Aero León S.A de C.V was a cargo airline based in Mexico City[1].
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Aero León was founded in May 1978 by the captain Eucario León, a former fighter pilot of the US Navy during WW2 and a former in-flight attendant and pilot of Continental Airlines, starting with a Douglas DC-9-15F on flights between Mexico City, Monterrey and San Luis Potosí.
In March 1980, Aero León received two Douglas DC-8-24 and started flights to Centro and South America[2].
In April 1983, Aero León had an incident while it was carrying cow cattle to Brazil. The aircraft (a DC-8) suffered a depressurization problem and had an emergency landing, but when landed, the cattle was dead, due to the temperature descended to subfreezing levels by the depressurization: after an investigation, DGAC found several maintenance failuress in the fleet of Aero León. The airline was suspended on may 21; however, the airline renewed their papers, gave a massive maintenance to the fleet and returned to fly in june 10, when their AOC was returned.
In July 28, the airline suffered another incident when after one airplane had an emergency landing at Mexico City. An investigation found more than 36 human corpses in the airplane. The airline was called to meeting with the civil authorities, and although the airline said that a group of people realised a sabotage in the night before the night and introduced the corpses in the aircraft, the crew was accused of traffic of corpses. After of the session, the directors of the airline was condemned to 26 years of prison and the pilots, charge operators and in-flight personnel were sentenced to 17 years of prison. Finally, the AOC of Aero León was removed in September 16 and the airline was closed 2 days later.
Until March 1983, destinations of Aero León included: