'We threw ourselves to the floor': Mexican passenger plane caught in cartel crossfire

Chaotic scenes inside the Aeromexico 165 Culiacan, Sinaloa-Mexico City flight following reports of gunfire hitting the plane's fuselage, as an apparent reaction by a gang, following the detention of Mexican drug gang leader Ovidio Guzman, a son of incarcerated kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who has been arrested by Mexican authorities, in Culiacan, Mexico, January 5, 2023 in this still image obtained from social media video. David Tellez via REUTERS

"That's an attack plane, Dad," said one of David Tellez's young children as they spotted Mexican military aircraft touching down alongside their Aeromexico passenger plane early on Thursday.

Then the gunfire began.