Piper PA-28 Cherokee - Accidents and Incidents

Accidents and Incidents

• September 9, 1969, Allegheny Airlines Flight 853, a Douglas DC-9-31, collided with a Piper PA-28-181 Archer over the city of Fairland, Indiana, killing all aboard both planes.

• August 28, 1972, Prince William of Gloucester, was killed along with the copilot of his Piper Cherokee Arrow in Staffordshire, England,in an air race.

• August 31, 1986, Aeroméxico Flight 498, a Douglas DC-9-32, collided with a Piper PA-28-181 Archer, owned by William Kramer, over the city of Cerritos, California, killing all 67 people aboard both planes and 15 people on the ground. It was the worst air disaster in the history of Los Angeles, and resulted in regulatory changes requiring all airliners to be equipped with traffic alert and collision avoidance systems (TCAS) and all light aircraft operating in terminal control areas be equipped with a mode C transponder.

• February 18, 2010, Andrew Joseph Stack III deliberately flew his Piper PA-28-236 Dakota into Building 1 of the Echelon office complex in Austin, Texas, in an apparent revenge attack on the Internal Revenue Service office located there.

• November 17, 2011, a PA-28-180 crash four miles south of Perryville, Arkansas claimed the life of Oklahoma State University head women's basketball coach Kurt Budke and assistant coach Miranda Serna, along with the pilot and another passenger.