By Alyssa Jeong Perry and Levi Bridges, KQED News/The California Report
In the winter of 1990, a private plane carrying a small group of passengers crashed on the high-altitude plateau of central Mexico.
For Maria Mendoza, the accident started a chain of events that sent her on a northward journey all the way to Oakland and eventually, years later, back to the small town in the Mexican state of Hidalgo where she was born.
Read the complete story at KQED News/The California Report.
