US Airways FA found dead on Mexico City layover

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MEXICO CITY - Officials confirm a US Airways flight attendant has been found dead in Mexico City. Early reports indicate he was strangled.

The airline's flight attendants' union placed a notice on its website informing members of Nick Aaronson's death.

According to the notice, Aaronson was found dead in his hotel room in Mexico City early Saturday morning.

According to a report by NoticiasMexico.com.mx, Aaronson was found lying unconscious, face down beside the bed at the Hilton Hotel, with his hands bound behind him and a belt around his neck.

The union's notice stated an investigation is underway and that it did not appear there was a security breach at the hotel. However, layover crews were to be relocated to an "alternative location."

A spokesperson for the attorney general in Mexico City told CNN that Aaronson's body had been struck several times. (continued)
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Story and Video here:

http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/regio...ys-flight-attendant-found-dead-in-mexico-city-
 
Early guess - asphyxiation sex-play gone awry. David Carradine type of stuff. If I were betting, that's where I'd be. If it were a simple robbery type thing the perp wouldn't have taken the time to bind the hands - would have just suffocated. I would imagine that to tie someones hands would be much harder than simply choking them and would perhaps/most likely take the willingness of the person having their hands bound. Would be much easier to simply choke them and take their money - if that was the motive. That is the thinking behind my guess.
 
I know they spend more than the average dude on makeup. I will vote for Waco's speculative theory.
 
MikeD said:
Story and Video here:

http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_southeast_valley/tempe/official%3A-us-airways-flight-attendant-found-dead-in-mexico-city-
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Linky no workie. Google searched it and came up with the exact same address. Wierd.


Anyways. So sad. I wonder what happened. Although what Jim is saying could be a very real possibility, I am not holding my breath that thats what in fact happened. Mexico is nothing like the US. It is full of corruption. I could see someone knowing that they were there, and get issued a key card for the room he was in from someone who was "on the take." They do some wierd stuff down there in terms of torture. Why would the contents of his suitcase be all over the room? I mean, some of them cut peoples heads off and bring them to their families when they don't pay up. To me, it sounds like a couple of amateurs that screwed up. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out with the Mexican police, and how well they can do an investigation.
 
I love Latin America and South America, and they're culture and language. But just another reason why I avoid Mexico like the plague. Damn Shame, condolences to the family... :(
 
It's easy to jump to narco violence as the cause but I think it's more likely a robbery/sex crime situation.
 
It sucks none the less. Condolences to anyone that new him. Could just have been a random thing too.
 
Maybe it's one, maybe it's the other. Either way, it sucks that the dude died. As an aside, I always find it darkly amusing that Americans are falling all over themselves to decry the violence of our southern neighbors when it's our own desire for drugz that's the ultimate cause of most of it. "Let's fix all the horrifying drug violence of those poor savages, preferably with JDAMs,...as long as it doesn't get between me and my dime bag..."
 
Did the handcuffs have fluffy pink feathers on them? On another note this can happen anywhere but Mexico is shady for sure!!
 
I like how everyone assumes just because this happened in Mexico that the place is somehow totally unsafe. I was in Guanajuato a few months ago and felt totally safe.

A few years ago, a pilot at the Beagle was robbed in his hotel room in Memphis. Walked in on the burglars- they assaulted him during their escape. Does everybody assume it's just because it was Tennessee? Hmm..
 
Firebird2XC said:
I like how everyone assumes just because this happened in Mexico that the place is somehow totally unsafe. I was in Guanajuato a few months ago and felt totally safe.

A few years ago, a pilot at the Beagle was robbed in his hotel room in Memphis. Walked in on the burglars- they assaulted him during their escape. Does everybody assume it's just because it was Tennessee? Hmm..
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No but being as I grew up in Memphis for the first 19 years of my life, I would almost assume its because he was in Memphis.
 
It took me a while to start using these things but after a friend was robbed in his Oakland hotel-room, while he was in the room, I throw the latch every time.

It may not have changed anything here but you never know.

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Firebird2XC said:
I like how everyone assumes just because this happened in Mexico that the place is somehow totally unsafe. I was in Guanajuato a few months ago and felt totally safe.

A few years ago, a pilot at the Beagle was robbed in his hotel room in Memphis. Walked in on the burglars- they assaulted him during their escape. Does everybody assume it's just because it was Tennessee? Hmm..
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I put zero stock in feeling safe!

I never felt unsafe on a layover in Guanajuato either, or any other Mexico layover for that matter. In fact I even have done some urban hikes with not much on me other than a little bit of cash into areas that I would not go in now.

Mexico isn't what it used to be, from what I've read since I stopped flying there anyway. As much as I really liked laying over in places south of the border on a regular basis, at this time I don't really mind that I'm not doing that anymore.

And yes, Memphis is in the same league as Mexico. :/

I felt safe walking around Johannesburg a few days ago but that doesn't mean I wasn't in one of the most dangerous cities in the world.
 
Update

PHOENIX (AP) — A US Airways flight attendant based in Phoenix was found dead in a Mexico City hotel room while on a layover, and authorities have reportedly arrested a suspect in connection with his killing.

A flight attendants union said the body of Nick Aaronson, 33, was found early Saturday in his room at a downtown Hilton.

Aaronson's mom, Anita Aaronson, posted on her Facebook page Sunday night that a suspect has been arrested.

Her posting said, “The FBI called Jason at 2 30 am and told him they have arrested Nicks killer."

"Jason has just left for the flight to Mexico City to bring his brother home, he will return on Tuesday passing through Phoenix, I dont know the time of the arrival in Phoenix, but Im sure you can all find out," she wrote later on her page.

The Mexico City prosecutor's office said Nick Aaronson was found naked on the floor, his hands tied behind his back with a cloth.
He showed signs of beating and choking. Prosecutors said no drugs, weapons or messages were found in the room.

Police were checking security cameras, and an autopsy was planned. “We don't know a lot,” Deborah Volopek, of the Flight Attendants Union, told Fox 10 by phone Saturday night. “What our focus is right now is caring for our co-workers, who all know Nick,” Volopek said Saturday.

Fellow flight attendants say he loved his job and was a pleasure to work with. (continued)
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Story here:

http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/crime/apx-USFlight-Attendant-Death_96020988-10302011
 
Layover safety is paramount but people take very few precautions.

Personally, I suggest blending in. Watching where you eat and where you drink because you can "disappear" very easily overseas and just as easy in the US.

When you "resemble a pilot" with the dad jeans/khakis and the flip-flops/black shoes, you've just indicated that you're temporarily in town, unsure of your surroundings and an easy target. In Europe, it's even worse because you've just displayed that you don't speak the language, don't know how to contact the authorities, and you'll be leaving soon so you're a SUPER easy target.

Blend in, watch your back, have fun but be suspicious and you'll be fine.
 
Doug Taylor said:
Layover safety is paramount but people take very few precautions.

Personally, I suggest blending in. Watching where you eat and where you drink because you can "disappear" very easily overseas and just as easy in the US.

When you "resemble a pilot" with the dad jeans/khakis and the flip-flops/black shoes, you've just indicated that you're temporarily in town, unsure of your surroundings and an easy target. In Europe, it's even worse because you've just displayed that you don't speak the language, don't know how to contact the authorities, and you'll be leaving soon so you're a SUPER easy target.

Blend in, watch your back, have fun but be suspicious and you'll be fine.
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I won't travel to Europe for fear of being sold into the sex trade and ending up as a concubine on some rich Saudi's yacht. That, or the vampires.
 
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