1986 Cerritos Airplane Crash - C1

[handsomerube]

0:11 "the plane was not all that high in the ground"

an unfortunate slip of the tongue...

[Crommy5]

Great video. Thanks for the annotations.

[checkerboreds]

Where did you get that video? I was wondering because I had the same footage on a vhs tape that I got rid of accidently a couple of years ago.

[MichaelScarne]

@checkerboreds My Grandpa recorded it off the TV when it initially aired back in 1986.

[B4S3B4LLF4N]

where was this EXACTLY?

[shadowhunter388]

Was it true that the Piper pilot ended up hanging in the tree of the elementary?

[MichaelScarne]

@shadowhunter388 Nope. All three people in that plane were still in the plane when it crashed.

[Multiimage]

So sad, I heard the planes crash and saw the small plane go down like a toy airplane. Me and my friend walked near both planes. I now wish I never seen the destruction it was horrific......Every person died in both plane crashes.

[TheSlopB0X]

so what was the finale death count?

[feldschpah]

@TheSlopB0X - 82 total. The breakdown: 15 on the ground, 3 in the Piper aircraft, 66 in the DC-9.

[TheSlopB0X]

@feldschpah big number ..very sad, I live two miles from the site.

I will be at the memorial in august for the 25 year anniversary.

It's a wonderful two wing statue outside the cerritos center.

I rode my bike down to the crash site about 30 minutes after

it happen. I was 11 years old (now 37)

I will always remember everything I saw that day.

Hard to believe 25 years have gone by.

Thank you for the reply my friend.

[TheBassguy1]

@TheSlopB0X I wasn't alive, my mother was though. She lived not too far either. She said it sounded like an atom bomb going off. I've always wondered why she has hated flying, then I learned about this, and now I know.

[shadowhunter388]

@TheBassguy1 Same with my mom except she was out of town during that time.

[robsep51]

So how times did she actually hear an Atomic Bomb go off to compare the sound the crashed made?

[TheBassguy1]

@robsep51 It's a simile.

[jennfonseca]

@TheSlopB0X i remember this well also..i too was only 11 when it happened, and lived in Buena Park at the time...this incident had impacted many in communities all around Cerritos, where i lived the smoke was heavy and so close to home....(i lived on the LA county/OC border portion of BP )...it was heartbreaking and very very much in minds daily for a long time...

[beatlemyn]

I cannot believe how the media used to be allowed to be able to get right into the crash area. They can't get away with that now.

[TheLAKERSareGodsTeam]

Dave Lopez. NUMBER ONE with the story.