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Title: Wreckage of Aerome´xico collision, Cerritos
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Sergieff, Mike
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.
Looking down into a school yard off of 183rd Street (upper right) in Cerritos, showing the debris (left of center) of the Piper PA-28-181 Archer that collided in mid-air with Aerome´xico Flight 498, a DC-9. The collision killed 67 people aboard both aircraft and 15 people on the ground. Photograph dated September 1, 1986.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00094761
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b002_f1_i38
CARL0005041970
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/32518
Subject: Aerome´xico
Aircraft accidents--California--Cerritos
Airplanes--California--Cerritos
Aircraft accident victims--California--Cerritos
Police--California--Cerritos
Debris--California--Cerritos
Dwellings--California--Cerritos
Streets--California--Cerritos
Schools--California--Cerritos
Piper airplanes
Cerritos (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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