we see trends in every fleets of aircraft. doesn t matter if it s the dc-9 or 737 or boeing 777. the asiana crash was probably going to come down to a lack of proficiency by the pilots. i wouldn t be surprised at the end of the day when the black boxes are recovered and we have enough pieces of this airplane to draw some logical and intelligent conclusions, that we find that it may be just a very simple event that led to a cascading series of problems that overwhelm the crew aability to deal with it in the time they had with the resources they had. that leads me to my next question. still could be a nefarious event. the obvious suspects, once you get past investigating those obvious suspects, do you step back and you find nothing, i should have added that, do you stoep back and say, maybe it s just something simple. no, they have said they look at all of that aspects of it. it could be something simple. in all of the previous crash
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 into the garage and our garage door is obviously open and he said to us, we re going to die.
welcome to what s next. comcastnbcuniversal. the tensions or russia. a top tide president obama says it s possible russia is preparing to take more of ukraine. moscow is amassing troops along the eastern border them massive mudslide north of seattle claimed four lives. 18 people, maybe more, are still missing. now back to why planes crash. a dc-9 takes off from miami international airport and begins its assent. as it reaches 10,000 feet, fire breaks out in the cargo hold. moments later, the pilot loses control of the plane and plunge
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 85, and that could go even higher as the search continues for victims on tuesday, september 2, 1986. in some way the mid-air collisions in san diego and