when you re flying in unknown uncontrolled airspace, you don t necessarily have to talk to an air traffic controller. you don t necessarily have to have a transponder, but if you re going to operate anywhere within a controlled airspace, you have to have permission to operate in that airspace. you can t just fly into it without permission. the dc-9 crew believed correctly that they were in protected areas and they were. but unbeknownst to them, the piper had strayed in their airspace. the general aviation airplane struck the tail of the dc-9, taking off the vertical and horizontal stabilizer and rendered the dc-9 inverted. the back end of the airplane, and there s a picture of it as it descended upside down before it crashes into a neighborhood. counting passengers and those on the ground, the total number of people killed now stands at
good morning. the news from cerritos, california, keeps getting worse. there are officials searching through the ruins of sunday s mid-air crash and found 15 more people dead on the ground. labor day weekend 1986 more than a mile above cerritos, a suburb of los angeles, a piper archer smashes into aeromexico flight 498, a dc-9. the top of the piper is sheered off, instantly killing all three passengers aboard, a middle-aged couple and their adult daughter. in the crash over san diego a eight years earlier, the larger plane, psa flight 182, loses sight of a much smaller cessna, and slams into it from behind. over cerritos, the piper pilot doesn t realize he has strayed into controlled airspace surrounding lax, los angeles international airport.
small aircraft and another catastrophic midair collision. it was a sunday. it was in august. and my brother and i were playing on the driveway. my father was sitting on the lawn. and we were on our bikes. and i remember my brother just very casually said, look, there s a plane on fire, and it s coming down on our house. 6,500 feet above cerritos, california, a suburb east of los angeles, a privately owned piper archer has strayed into the path of aeromexico flight 498, a dc-9 with 64 people on board. at the time, corrine kingsbury is 5 years old. my father came and swooped us and brought us in the garage. and our garage door was obviously open.
father s plane had crashed. and i told him, that couldn t be true, because he was the best pilot. the outgrowth of it was a very strong commitment by piedmont airlines to be involved in to the traffic collision avoidance system. and some years later, they were one of the first, if not the first airline to fly with an active tks system on board. six years later, betty barron is aboard a charter jet that collides with a dc-9 over france. all 68 on the dc-9 perish. everyone on betty s plane survives. my father was sitting in the aisle seat and i was sitting on the right-hand side, and i turned around, and he s very british and very stoic. and i said, daddy, do you think we re going to make it? and he said, i rather doubt it, darling, and pointed to the other wing. somebody sent me this picture of when we landed of the plane. and as you can see, the tires
are those lanes open or are they shut down? sorry, trying to find the dc-9, what was your question? are the northbound lanes shut down? we have a picture from the ground of the dc-10. the northbound lanes were getting through earlier. i can t see where traffic was shut down. i can tell you, as we try and find that dc-10, once again, traffic is completely jammed in both directions including the northbound side of the 15 freeway. even if it s not shut down traffic is at a standstill coming in from san bernardino. again, both directions northbound and southbound, these lanes here at the center of the fire are the southbound lanes. to answer your question chuck, not clear if they have gone ahead and shut down the northbound lanes. i believe was that the dc-10