The Plane Crash That Almost Killed Me…

On August 31, 1986, Aeromexico Flight 498 was on final approach to Los Angeles International Airport when it collided midair with a private Cessna that had drifted into restricted airspace above Cerritos, California. The impact tore both aircraft apart. All sixty-four passengers and crew aboard the DC-9 were killed. The three people in the Cessna were killed as well. Fifteen people on the ground died when the jet slammed into a quiet residential neighborhood in a massive fireball.

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