Air Crash Investigation - Collision Over LA / Out Of Sight (S04E07)

Aeroméxico Flight 498, registration XA-JED, was a Douglas DC-9-32 en route from Mexico City, Mexico to Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, California, United States (with stops in Guadalajara, Loreto, and Tijuana) on August 31, 1986. N4891F was a privately-operated Piper PA-28-181 Archer owned by the Kramer family en route from Torrance to Big Bear City, California. The two aircraft collided in mid-air over Cerritos, California, killing all 67 aboard both aircraft and 15 people on the ground. In addition, 8 persons on the ground sustained minor injuries from the crash.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Mayday
• ACI
• Air Emergency
• Air Crash Investigation
• Out Of Sight
• Collision Over LA
• Aeroméxico
• Flight 498
• XA-JED
• Douglas DC-9-32
• Mid-Air Collision
• Hermosillo
• Los Angeles
• Piper PA-28-181 Archer
• Cherokee
• Cerritos
• N4891F

[jsb3287]

the headless corspe was a bit graphic!

[ellethekitty]

@ikilem i think they have an american narrator for episodes aired here and a Brit for the ones aired in Britain,

[ptcsw]

That's Cerritos Elementary School where the Piper landed.

[JEnokokame]

@sunnchilde

true...but then again, it's tragedies like this that actually tells people that there is a problem, that something should be fixed. Often we really don't know that there's a problem until something bad happens...we learn from accidents & tragedies so that we can improve things in the future. It's very sad yes, but that's just how things are.

[LaJefaza]

I just want to hug the two moms in this episode who lost almost everything :(

[MidwayCastaway]

The guy in the Grumman should have been jailed the prick.

[sunnchilde]

The real tragedy is that it takes something like this to change things. Unless there's blood on the ground, unless there's bodies laying everywhere, nobody wants to do anything or spend a single penny. Not until a whole plane load of people are killed will any safety improvements be made. That's what people should be angry about. Did you know that new jet engines didn't used to need to fly before they were certified? Now they are. Why? Because a whole plane load of people died.

[shaindaman13]

This is the kind of crash that will seriously fuck up your entire weekend.

[shaindaman13]

1500 planes a day?! Good God that's some heavy traffic rite there!

[Lunchbox37]

Walter White!

[Jetters234]

Good God! That is horrible! It was amazing that the boy cam out alive!

[BrickTVEntertainment]

@Kamilohbk It could be 3 thousand meters if they wanted to say 10 thousand feet...