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Aeroméxico Flight 498 was a scheduled commercial flight from Mexico City to Los Angeles , with several intermediate stops. On Sunday, August 31, 1986, the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 operating the flight was clipped in the tail section by N4891F, a Piper PA-28-181 Archer owned by the Kramer family, and crashed into the Los Angeles suburb of Cerritos , killing all 67 on both aircraft and an additional fifteen on the ground. Eight on the ground also sustained minor injuries from the midday crash.
The larger aircraft involved, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 with tail number XA-JED[4] named Hermosillo , was delivered in April 1969 to Delta Air Lines as N1277L before entering into service with Aeroméxico[5] in November 1979.[ citation needed] It was en route from Mexico City to Los Angeles International Airport (with intermediate stops in Guadalajara , Loreto , and Tijuana ).[6]
N4891F was a privately operated Piper PA-28-181 Archer owned by the Kramer family, which was en route from Torrance to Big Bear City, California . The Piper aircraft, with pilot William Kramer and two passengers aboard, had departed Torrance around 11:40 am PDT . Kramer had 231 flight hours and had moved to southern California within the last year from Spokane, Washington .[7]
The cockpit crew of Flight 498 consisted of Captain Arturo Valdes Prom, 46, and First Officer Jose Hector Valencia, 26. The captain had 4,632 hours of flying experience in the DC-9 (technically referred to in an accident report as "in-type") and a total of 10,641 flight hours. The first officer had flown 1,463 hours in total, of which 1,245 hours had been accumulated in-type.

On Sunday, August 31, 1986 at about 11:46 am PDT, Flight 498 began its descent into Los Angeles with 58 passengers and six crew members on board. At 11:52 am, the Piper's engine collided with the left horizontal stabilizer of the DC-9, shearing off the top of the Piper's cockpit and decapitating Kramer and both of his passengers.[8] The heavily damaged Piper fell onto an empty playground at Cerritos Elementary School .[9] [10]
The DC-9, with all of its horizontal stabilizer and most of its vertical stabilizer torn off, inverted and immediately entered a dive. It slammed into a residential neighborhood at Holmes Avenue and Reva Circle in Cerritos, crashing into the backyard of a house at 13426 Ashworth Place, exploding on impact. The explosion scattered the DC-9's wreckage across Holmes Avenue and onto Carmenita Road, destroying four other houses and damaging seven more.[11] All 64 passengers and crew on board the DC-9 were killed, and fifteen people on the ground;[8] a fire added to the damage.

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Aeroméxico Flight 498 was a scheduled commercial flight from Mexico City to Los Angeles , with several intermediate stops. On Sunday, August 31, 1986, the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 operating the flight was clipped in the tail section by N4891F, a Piper PA-28-181 Archer owned by the Kramer family, and crashed into the Los Angeles suburb of Cerritos , killing all 67 on both aircraft and an additional fifteen on the ground. Eight on the ground also sustained minor injuries from the midday crash.
The larger aircraft involved, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 with tail number XA-JED[4] named Hermosillo , was delivered in April 1969 to Delta Air Lines as N1277L before entering into service with Aeroméxico[5] in November 1979.[ citation needed] It was en route from Mexico City to Los Angeles International Airport (with intermediate stops in Guadalajara , Loreto , and Tijuana ).[6]
N4891F was a privately operated Piper PA-28-181 Archer owned by the Kramer family, which was en route from Torrance to Big Bear City, California . The Piper aircraft, with pilot William Kramer and two passengers aboard, had departed Torrance around 11:40 am PDT . Kramer had 231 flight hours and had moved to southern California within the last year from Spokane, Washington .[7]
The cockpit crew of Flight 498 consisted of Captain Arturo Valdes Prom, 46, and First Officer Jose Hector Valencia, 26. The captain had 4,632 hours of flying experience in the DC-9 (technically referred to in an accident report as "in-type") and a total of 10,641 flight hours. The first officer had flown 1,463 hours in total, of which 1,245 hours had been accumulated in-type.

On Sunday, August 31, 1986 at about 11:46 am PDT, Flight 498 began its descent into Los Angeles with 58 passengers and six crew members on board. At 11:52 am, the Piper's engine collided with the left horizontal stabilizer of the DC-9, shearing off the top of the Piper's cockpit and decapitating Kramer and both of his passengers.[8] The heavily damaged Piper fell onto an empty playground at Cerritos Elementary School .[9] [10]
The DC-9, with all of its horizontal stabilizer and most of its vertical stabilizer torn off, inverted and immediately entered a dive. It slammed into a residential neighborhood at Holmes Avenue and Reva Circle in Cerritos, crashing into the backyard of a house at 13426 Ashworth Place, exploding on impact. The explosion scattered the DC-9's wreckage across Holmes Avenue and onto Carmenita Road, destroying four other houses and damaging seven more.[11] All 64 passengers and crew on board the DC-9 were killed, and fifteen people on the ground;[8] a fire added to the damage.

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