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Title: Aerome´xico crash site in Cerritos
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Knudsen, Anne
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1986
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
The mid-air collision between Aerome´xico Flight 498 and a Piper PA-28-181 Archer plane fell upon the Cerritos neighborhood around the intersection of 183rd Street and Carmenita Road. The collision killed 67 people aboard both aircraft and 15 people on the ground.
Photograph caption reads: "A grim-faced Gov. George Deukmejian inspects the scene of Cerritos plane crash". Photograph dated: Sept. 2, 1986.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 32 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00077880
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b002_f1_i31
CARL0000078741
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24693
Subject: Deukmejian, George
Aerome´xico
Aircraft accidents--California--Cerritos
Dwellings--California--Cerritos
Debris--California--Cerritos
Lost architecture--California--Cerritos
Governors--California
Cerritos (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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