Crashing in a California Suburb

Black Box Down

Society & Culture, Aviation, True Crime, Leisure, Documentary

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

A DC-9 collides with a Piper Archer over Los Angeles. Aeromexico Flight 498 is approaching Los Angeles International Airport when suddenly a small Piper Archer airplane collides into it, sending it to a neighborhood below. How did these two planes hit each other? Find out on this episode of Black Box Down. Sponsored by ExpressVPN (http://expressvpn.com/blackboxdown) MeUndies (http://meundies.com/BLACKBOXDOWN) and Honey (http://joinhoney.com/blackboxdown) Find us on social media and buy our merch here! https://linktr.ee/BlackBoxDownPod Black Box Down Crash Simulator: https://roosterteeth.com/watch/black-box-down-1 Tales From The Stinky Dragon: https://link.chtbl.com/stinkydragon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Ruestur-Ts production.
0:04.3	August 31, 1986.
0:09.8	Error Mexico flight 498, a McDonald Douglas DC-9, was 64 people on board, is on approach
0:15.3	to land at Los Angeles' LAX Airport after a short flight from Tijuana, Mexico.
0:20.1	The pilots are busy preparing to land when air traffic control contacts them to give
0:23.5	them a new runway to land on.
0:25.6	After giving them the updated news, the air traffic controller never hears back any confirmation,
0:29.9	and in horror realizes Error Mexico 498 has disappeared off of his radar.
0:34.2	The controller asks another nearby flight if they can see the plane, but they report only
0:37.9	seeing a billowing smoke screen on the ground at their 11 o'clock position.
0:41.8	Firefighters rush to the scene to find the plane as crashed into houses in the Los Angeles
0:45.2	suburbs.
0:46.2	What happened to a routine flight on approach to land at LAX?
0:49.1	Find out on this episode of Black Box Down.
0:54.2	Hello everyone, welcome to Black Box Down, it's Gus and Chris.
0:56.9	Welcome back Chris.
0:57.9	Yeah, it's good to be back.
0:58.9	Yeah, we had a little break, had a couple of supplemental episodes in there, but we're
1:02.0	back with regular episodes.
1:03.5	Also launched a new show.
1:04.8	Also did, we did launch a new show, look at you with the cross promotion.
1:07.3	We have a Dungeons & Dragons podcast called Tales from the Stinky Dragon.
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