1986 Cerritos Airplane Crash - C1

News footage from August 31, 1986, the day an Aeromexico DC-9 airplane crashed in Cerritos, California.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Cerritos
• California
• Airplane
• Crash
• Aeromexico
• DC-9
• 1986
• News Footage

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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...

[robsep51]

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

[B4S3B4LLF4N]

where was this EXACTLY?