They were on board of a Cessna 210 plane that crashed, without survivors.
With the planes giving chase, the small Cessna plane flown by two traffickers landed at the airstrip near the village of Tlalixcoyan.
Cessna light planes - Referred to as "November" flights, a reference to their aircraft registration numbers which all start with N in the United States.
On 9 February 2013, a small Cessna plane crashed near the runway after suffering technical problems during take-off, killing all 5 people on board.
Smith transformed the service from piston prop Cessna 421-type planes to 15-passenger turbine Beech 99s.
A single fatality was suffered in each of two accidents, and most of the accidents involved single-engine Cessna planes carrying a small number of passengers.
The Cessna plane does not have black boxes to record flight information.
On November 25, 2008, a Cessna 310 plane carrying 2 people experienced landing gear problems.
Paul Revere has been controlled since 1985 by Textron Inc., the maker of Bell helicopters and Cessna planes.
At the outset, Salt Spring Air operated with a single Cessna 185 single-engine plane.