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Good morning. the news from cerritos, california, keeps getting worse. there are officials searching through the ruins of sunday's mid-air crash and found 15 more people dead on the ground. >> labor day weekend 1986 more than a mile above cerritos, a suburb of los angeles, a piper archer smashes into aeromexico flight 498, a dc-9. the top of the piper is sheered off, instantly killing all three passengers aboard, a middle-aged couple and their adult daughter. in the crash over san diego a -- eight years earlier, the larger plane, psa flight 182, loses sight of a much smaller cessna, and slams ...

Small aircraft and another catastrophic midair collision. >> it was a sunday. it was in august. and my brother and i were playing on the driveway. my father was sitting on the lawn. and we were on our bikes. and i remember my brother just very casually said, look, there's a plane on fire, and it's coming down on our house. >> 6,500 feet above cerritos, california, a suburb east of los angeles, a privately owned piper archer has strayed into the path of aeromexico flight 498, a dc-9 with 64 people on board. at the time, corrine kingsbury is 5 years old. >> my father came and swooped us and brou...

Father's plane had crashed. and i told him, that couldn't be true, because he was the best pilot. >> the outgrowth of it was a very strong commitment by piedmont airlines to be involved in to the traffic collision avoidance system. and some years later, they were one of the first, if not the first airline to fly with an active tks system on board. >> six years later, betty barron is aboard a charter jet that collides with a dc-9 over france. all 68 on the dc-9 perish. everyone on betty's plane survives. >> my father was sitting in the aisle seat and i was sitting on the right-hand side, and i ...

That made that drop? >> the dc-9 was flying around. you have two large passenger jet aircraft that are converted for fire use flying in the area here. once again, we remind you how tricky it is. you are in a pass you have winds to deal with. it is very tricky flying to try to get the water drops right on the spot. >> ift's quite a sight. news chopper 4 flying above all the fire flight with the numerous air tankers operating in a close proximity. such meticulous work as they get into the thick of the smoke and make the drops, one by one, not only air tankers, but helicopters and all the resourc...

Why me? >> reporter: she was 4 years old when sheep survived the crash of northwest flight 255. the phoenix bound dc 9 went down in august of 1987 moments after taking off from detroit. killing 154 people on board. >> started falling down from the sky. and the pilot told us we were going to crash. >> reporter: george was 17 years old when he became the sole survivor of of a 1985 crash in reno that killed his father and 69 others. >> i remember the plane started to descend. they've told us to fasten our seatbelts because we were crashing. >> reporter: yet another example of a young survivor the...