Accidents and Incidents
- The Aeroméxico Flight 498 or Cerritos air disaster happened in 1986, when a private Piper Cherokee owned by William Kramer en route from Torrance to Big Bear City Airport near Big Bear Lake collided with a Douglas DC-9 owned by Aeroméxico en route from various Mexican cities to Los Angeles International Airport. Both planes crashed, causing all of the people on both planes to die and some residents in Cerritos to die or sustain injuries.
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