Jenni Rivera Plane Crash: 43-Year-Old Aircraft Had Malfunctioned Once Before

The plane that crashed early Sunday morning leaving Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera dead had logged 43 years worth of flights and had malfunctioned once before in 2005, Mexican wire service Notimex reports.
The cause of the plane crash that killed Rivera was not immediately known by Sunday evening, but data from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration showed the Learjet 25 was built in 1969, according to Notimex.
While trying to take off on an Amarillo airstrip in 2005, the plane experienced a fuel system malfunction, causing one wing to weigh more than the other. No one was injured in the 2005 accident, Notimex reports.
At least five people were on board the plane when it crashed Sunday: the pilots, Miguel Pérez and Alejandro Torres, along with the singer, her publicist and her makeup artist.
Police and forensic experts found Jenni Rivera’s driver’s license at the scene of the plane crash, along with an identification belonging to 78-year-old pilot Miguel Pérez.
On Sunday night, the Rivera's family confirmed her death to reporters outside their home in Los Angeles.

"My queen, we will see each other again soon," the singer's father Pedro Rivera said, according to HuffPost Voces. "We thought it was a press speculation, we wanted to believe that. But it's true, my daughter is dead."
The artist's brothers Pedro, Gustavo and Juan will travel to Mexico on Tuesday to identify the body and return it to Los Angeles, where they plan to lay her to rest, Mexican daily El Universal reports.