Jenni Rivera Dead, Plane Crash Update: Plane 'Nose-Dived' 620 Miles Per Hour; Rivera Family Hopes She's Still Alive; 'La Voz Mexico' to End This Sunday

The death of singer Jenni Rivera still has fans and many within the Latino community in shock.

Rivera died on Sunday morning, and according to the Mexico's Secretary of Communications and Transportation Gerardo Ruiz Esparza, she died during a flight falling more than 28,000 feet at speeds reaching approximately 620 miles per hour.

"The plane practically nose-dived," said Ruiz Esparza during an interview with Radio Formula. "The impact must have been terrible."

Rivera's plane was a Learjet 25, number N345MC, which departed from Monterrey, Mexico at 3:30 a.m. on her way to Toluca, west of Mexico City, where she was scheduled to appear on the Mexican edition of The Voice (La Voz Mexico), where she serves as one of the four judges. The plane was reported missing about 10 minutes after liftoff. La Voz will end their second season abruptly this Sunday, Dec. 16.

The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will send a team to help investigate the crash.

The Rivera family is still hoping for signs of life from the singer but is prepared for the worst.

"We still have hope that she's alive," said the singer's brother, Pedro Rivera Jr. to the Long Beach Press-Telegram. "It's a 95 percent chance that she's dead, but we have that belief because we don't have a body. They found clothes."

"My son Lupillo told me that effectively it was Jenni's plane that crashed and that everyone on board died," said Pedro Rivera Sr., the singer's father. "I believe my daughter's body is unrecognizable."

"I still trust God that perhaps the body isn't hers," said Rosa Saavedra said, the singer's mother. "We're hoping it's not true, that perhaps someone took her and left another woman there."

As for the funeral date, it remains unclear as Mexican authorities will first have to perform DNA tests to confirm the names of the bodies found at the plane wreckage site, including Rivera's. According to the Associated Press, it will take investigators several days to come to why the plane went down on Sunday.