A tranquil holiday weekend turns to horror as two planes crash, decimating a Los Angeles neighborhood and claiming 80 lives. An Aeromexico DC-9 collides with a smaller Piper PA-28 Cherokee while landing, triggering chaos. The DC-9 spirals and crashes, while the Cherokee ignites the suburb.
What led to the catastrophic collision of two planes over a Los Angeles neighbourhood?
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Mayday: Air Disaster – From Season 4 Episode 7 “Out of Sight”: Aeromexico Flight 498
August 31, 1986, two planes collide in mid-air and crash into a quiet Los Angeles suburb. There are more than 80 victims in the air and on the ground. Findings reveal a series of disturbing facts about congested airports. The accident set in motion many changes, notably the way planes are monitored by the controllers on the ground and by each other.
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This was such a sad disaster that could've been avoided </3
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1:47 So this is what young Walter White did before he Broke Bad and became a high school chemistry teacher. Makes sense he'd give up air traffic controlling.
A much seen episode for me. Actual title is "Out of Sight", Aeromexico Flight 498. A small private plane rips the, IMO, vertical wing of the DC-9, no survivors of either plane. The Los Angeles suburb is Cerritos.
The Woman Shaking in The Car Deserves an Oscar Award
Thankful for the people who developed TCAS, preventing similar tragedies. The 3 people in that Piper should all have been looking out the windows at all times. "Heads on a swivel, eyes all around" saves lives.
Now it’s called class B airspace.
Not historically accurate, Walter White lived in Albuquerque New Mexico.
Why you keep posting old content :/
ALL 3 IN THE PIPER GOT THEIR HEADS REMOVED. LOPPED OFF.
Walter White indirectly caused one air crash already
Poor ATC equipment… yes. Perhaps some will remember the Air Traffic Controller strike of August 1981. The reason we struck: get the poor equipment replaced.
i lived just north of there' it was that accident that gave me a fear of flying that still persists.
Fort Lauderdale International Airport recently changed its approaches so that my neighborhood intermittently has approaching aircraft fly over at fairly low altitudes. It really angers me because i was careful to move into this neighborhood expressly because it was not on any flight paths. Beyond the noise, is the safety factor. Everyone quotes statistics on how safe it is to fly, and i am sure the people in that neighborhood never thought twice about the dangers of having aircraft fly over until it was devastated in this accident.
I've seen too many videos of accidents where the pilots managed to turn what should have been a routine takeoff or landing into an air disaster killing everyone on board and in some cases people on the ground.
Walter White out here pulling side jobs to pay for those cancer treatments.
In aviation I think it's safe to say that if Walter White is involved, two planes are definitely crashing into each other. That's just a scientific fact
This is not a new video! You will lose me as a subscriber if you keep reposting old videos as new.
"jessie we need to control air traffic"
It is said that many of our code safety standards today is written in the blood of those who preceded us. This is a glaring example of this.
37 years ago and the pain is still for these people
this dive reminds me of the flight movie with denzel washington
this also happened in queens ny in 2001 after 9/11
rolled lol
My friend lost her family like that due to an atrocious, disgusting crime against humanity, ordered by the Second Red Terror after Stalin.
With some people, it really is hard to refrain from wishing they'd never been born.
The improvements made because of the deaths of enough people causes an action to be taken is referred to as.. "Tombstone Technology" and, sometimes, it's the only reason something is done about something that those who live close to these things (like putting in stoplights at a dangerous intersection) and quite often is the only reason something is done about it!! When YOU live close to something like that and have complained several times as well as your neighbors, because you have, more than once heard that unmistakable sound of squealing tires, breaking glass and crunching metal only to find a car in your front yard or even worse, a body!! After a few people are killed and you go to the media with the information that you and your neighbors have complained about this thing and have, basically been ignored up until there are enough dead people or someone famous or wealthy or a government official, like a senator or something is one of the people who end up dead at the very same place all of you have been complaining about all along!! That's just how it works, more often than not!
Unfortunately and ultimately it was the fault of the Piper Cherokee pilot who had no clue how to get where he was going. The other private plane just added to the confusion as did the newby air traffic controller as did the very outdated systems at that time. And unfortunately it took a major disaster like this to force the upgrades and changes.
Piper Cherokee is neither stylish nor swift. It's about as ordinary an airplane as you can get with the exception of the Cessna 172.