CNN —A pilot has died after the plane he was flying as part of a gender reveal party in Mexico crashed on Sunday. Pilot killed after his Piper PA-25 left wing failed at a gender reveal party in the town of San Pedro, Mexico. pic.twitter.com/6JILK7fsGm — Breaking Aviation News & Videos (@aviationbrk) September 3, 2023Authorities in Navolato, Sinaloa state, told CNN en Español, CNN’s sister network, that the pilot died in the hospital following the crash. Gender reveal parties were conceived as a fun way of telling family and friends whether they were about to welcome a girl or a boy into the world. And in Iowa in October 2019, a gender reveal party went south when the family unintentionally built a pipe bomb.

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Persons: Piper, Alan Francisco Rangel, Navolato Organizations: CNN, Breaking Aviation, Sinaloa Red Cross, Authorities Locations: Mexico, San Pedro, Navolato, Sinaloa, Arizona, Iowa