LAX’s Deadliest Crashes and Safety Wins | Irvine News

Presented by The Plant Daddies — rare specimen trees, living art, and hand-carved limestone vessels and fountains for extraordinary spaces. Showrooms in Los Angeles and Irvine. Listeners of Irvine News Today receive 10% off with code LANEWS10. theplantdaddies.com/lanews On a fateful August night in 1986, a Piper Cherokee collided mid-air with an Aeromexico DC-9 over Los Angeles, killing 82 people and destroying six homes — a tragedy that exposed critical gaps in air traffic control and small-plane detection. The crash spurred life-saving reforms, including mandatory transponders for small aircraft and onboard collision avoidance systems on commercial jets. But LAX’s safety story isn’t just about one disaster — it’s a series of near-misses and crashes, from a Continental DC-10 that caught fire on the runway in 1978 to a USAir 737 that slammed into another plane in 1991, all of which led to smarter runways, better radar, and ultimately, safer skies for millions. Listen in comfort:Get a discount on a Soli Pillow: http://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on DNN:[email protected] This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting.Report issues to [email protected]. View sources & latest updates:https://sources.thednn.ai/34ac2e5c9aeffb78