Mexican American singer and reality TV star Jenni Rivera was killed in a plane crash Sunday. Wreckage of the plane which was originally missing has been located with no survivors. The transportation and communication minister of Mexico, Gerardo Ruiz Esparza says: “Everything points toward it being the plane”.
The plane’s two pilots and five passengers which included Rivera, her attorney and her makeup artist, Jacob Yebale, all perished in the tragedy.
Rivera’s plane first went missing early Sunday morning, 10 minutes into a 60-minute flight after taking off in Monterrey. The crash site was discovered this afternoon in mountainous terrain in Nuevo Leon, just south of Monterrey.
Rivera was a 43-year-old Long Beach native, known to her fans as “la diva de la banda.”