{"id":75254,"date":"2024-06-29T05:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T19:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/los-angeles-cerritos-air-disaster-history\/"},"modified":"2024-06-29T05:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T19:00:11","slug":"history-the-story-of-los-angeles-cerritos-air-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=75254","title":{"rendered":"History: The Story Of Los Angeles’ Cerritos Air Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

On August 31, 1986, a tragic midair collision occurred over Cerritos, California, involving a Piper PA-28-181 and an Aeromexico<\/a> DC-9-32. The Piper entered the Los Angeles Terminal Control Area (TCA) without authorization and collided with the descending Aeromexico flight, killing all 67 people on both aircraft and 15 people on the ground. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The tragic accident in 1986 killed 82 people in the sky and on the ground, prompting major changes in air traffic collision prevention systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1282,396,7300,10989,408,1042,240],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aeromexico","category-aircraft","category-airplane-crash","category-cerritos-accident","category-history","category-mcdonnell-douglas-dc-9","category-north-america"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t