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Aeroméxico Flight 498 was a scheduled commercial flight from Mexico City, Mexico, to Los Angeles, California, United States, with several intermediate stops.On Sunday, August 31, 1986, the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 operating the flight was clipped in the tail section by N4891F, a Piper PA-28-181 Cherokee owned by the Kramer family, and crashed into the Los Angeles suburb of Cerritos, killing all ...
Four-seat personal/trainer aircraft to replace the Cherokee PA-60 Aerostar: 1967 1,010 Six-seat pressurized twin, Piper purchased the design from Ted R. Smith: PiperSport: 2010 85 Two-seat light-sport aircraft marketed by Piper between January 2010 and January 2011. It was produced by Czech Sport Aircraft and previously known as the ...
January 21 – A Piper PA-46 Malibu light aircraft transporting footballer Emiliano Sala crashed off Alderney in the Channel Islands. The aircraft had been travelling from Nantes, France, to Cardiff, Wales. The wreckage of the aircraft was found thirteen days later. [77] Sala's remains were recovered on 7 February. [78]
According to multiple aviation sites, the Piper reasonably could fly for upwards of 3.5 hours depending on weight and the amount of fuel in the plane. Its best range is about 648 nautical miles ...
Accident; Date: 21 January 2019 (): Summary: Loss of control, mid-air breakup, crashed into the sea: Site: English Channel, off Alderney, Channel Islands 1]: Aircraft; Aircraft type: Piper PA-46 Malibu: Registration: N264DB: Flight origin: Nantes Atlantique Airport, Nantes, France: Destination: Cardiff Airport, Cardiff, Wales: Occupants: 2: Passengers: 1: Crew: 1: Fatalities: 2: Survivors: 0 ...
The cockpit of a Piper PA-28-151 Cherokee Warrior (2016) For the Cherokee family, Piper used their traditional flight-control configuration. The horizontal tail is a stabilator with an antiservo tab (sometimes termed an antibalance tab). The antiservo tab moves in the same direction of the stabilator movement, making pitch control "heavier" as ...
The aircraft's propellers severed the tops of pine trees while the plane's left wing hit the ground, tore off, and spilled fuel. The rest of the plane impacted some thousand feet further. The impact and subsequent fire from the plane's fuel tanks scorched an 8-foot-deep (2.4 m) trench in the countryside.
The two aircraft had taken off at the same time (8:24 a.m. ADT) from separate locations and collided three minutes later, at an altitude of approximately 1,175 feet (358 m). A witness stated he saw the Piper, traveling north, strike the rear fuselage of the DHC-2, traveling west; after the impact, he saw what he thought was the DHC-2's left ...