Gil A. Marcoux, San Diego, RandolphMartin, Malibu Roger Smith, Waukesha, WI Photo: R.K.O. Gibson was named Canada's baseball player of the half century in 1958 and was the first baseball player elected to Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. Originally set up as an emergency command post and Red Cross triage facility, it soon became an overcrowded temporary morgue.77, At the gym, nurses numbered and inventoried each bags contents. The question remained, where was Cessna N7711G? After setting up a fire command center at the Sav-On drug store parking lot at University Avenue and 32nd Street, SDFD Battalion Chief Robert Osby jogged seven blocks south to the crash site to ascertain the situation.64 Arriving ahead of most city fire companies, Chief Osby was stunned to see a huge aircraft tail section lying in the street. Arriving back at the train station in his hometown of London, Ontario, on October 27, 1909, after winning the World Series, Gibson found more than 7,000 cheering fans to greet him. A PSA Boeing 727 and a Cessna 172 collided and 144 people died. During their initial investigation, investigators discovered pieces of the Cessna embedded in the jet airliners nose landing gear, which confirmed that the nose gear had struck the smaller aircraft before smashing into the starboard wing.82, Inside PSAs Lindbergh Field headquarters building, special financial assistant Don Simonian, along with other staff, responded to a stream of phone calls asking the status of friends or loved ones on board PSA 182. During its descent, the Boeing jet airliner was in a nose up deck approach which meant that it was almost next to impossible for its flight crew to see the small Cessna flying directly below it.39 The overhead position of the climbing Cessna 172 Skyhawks cantilevered wing would have restricted Boswell and Kazys rear view.40, At 09:01:28, Miramars radar-activated automated conflict alert alarm sounded, warning of an impending collision between the two aircraft.41 Installed only a month earlier, the system gave the ground controller no more than 40 seconds notice to warn the approaching aircraft. Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) appeals a summary judgment against it for liability and an award of damages arising from a midair collision between PSA flight 182 and a small plane, which occurred over the North Park area of San Diego. Daniel Bruce Urdahl, San Diego The PSA crash would test his endurance. An experienced PSA flight crew, however, should have been able to differentiate between the larger twin-engine, low-wing, six-to-eight-passenger Cessna 401 and the smaller single-engine, high-wing, four-passenger Cessna 172 at close range.34, It is entirely possible that, at 09:01:38, seven seconds after lowering the airliners landing gear, Flight Officer Foxs radio transmission, Theres one underneath and I was looking at that inbound there, could have meant that he was referring to the Cessna 401 flying along a western heading to conduct practice ILS landings.35 If Captain McFeron had informed Lindbergh Control that he had lost visual contact with Cessna N7711G, the latter would have stopped PSA 182s descent and told them to hold their position.36. . Although he did not provide prolific offensive statistics, he did provide excellent defensive abilities and was a keen student of baseball strategy under the tutelage of Pirates manager Fred Clarke. PSA Flight 182 & 1771 Memorial Page This page is dedicated to the PSA employees who were lost on flight 182 and 1771 PSA Flight 182 September 25, 1978 Jane Whyle-Spitz Flight Attendant Joined PSA in 1967 Dee Young* Flight Attendant Joined PSA in 1973 PSA Flight 1771 He then tagged and placed the body parts in a plastic body bag along with the corpse. She played Charlotte, the mother of Kay (Sally Field) in her final film, the romantic comedy Kiss Me Goodbye (Robert Mulligan, 1982). The crash occurred in 1948 and the hand was found in 1999. Our hope is to create a memorial that will honor the victims, their families, the neighborhood, and the law enforcement and emergency workers that still live with the memories of what they saw that day. In 1932, she starred on Broadway as the female lead in 'Whistling in the Dark'. The scattered remains also included those of seven North Park residents ranging in age from a 3-year-old at a daycare center to an 82-year-old grandmother in her home.76 Ambulances waiting to transport injured crash victims instead carried their bagged remains about a half mile southwest to the St. Augustine Roman Catholic High School gym building at 33rd and Nutmeg Streets. The death toll of 144 makes it the deadliest aircraft disaster in California history. CONTACT. RIP to all the victims. Pontianak, Indonesia CNN . Thats San Diegos airline; thats one of ours.65, Because of the aircrafts speed and steep angle of descent, damage was confined to a relatively small area. Nerene Faye Seaton, Bakersfield Sources: William McPeak (IMDb), Wikipedia, and IMDb. Neighborhood scene. Perry Flashman, Culver City From 1937 to 1940, she appeared with Edward G. Robinson in the popular radio series 'Big Town' while continuing to make films. Air Traffic Control alerted PSA 182 that there was a . 619-232-6203, For media inquiries: A 14-year veteran pilot, Chapman had filed a lawsuit against PSA in 1981 for wrongful termination and emotional distress. "This is it baby!" After completing high school, Trevor began her career with six months of art classes at Columbia University and six months at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Azmi David Taha, Vista, Allen Tetelman, Los Angeles On Monday morning, September 25, 1978, at 09:02:07 hours, however it resembled a Hell on earth, Pacific Southwest Airways Flight 182 to San Diego, Approximately nine minutes earlier, a Pacific Southwest Airlines [PSA] Boeing 727-214 jet airliner, call sign N533PS, entered San Diego airspace just off Encinitas. Pacific Southwest Airlines flight 182 in flames having collided with a Cessna light aircraft in skies over San Diego. More than 20 residences were damaged or destroyed. Boundary and Dwight Streets, North Park, 1966. Karen Borzewski, San Diego Gibson spent the majority of his athletic career with the Pittsburgh Pirates before serving as a player-coach for the New York Giants for his final two seasons. On Monday, September 25, 1978, San Diego was overcome by catastrophe. Devastated by these losses, she returned to Manhattan for some years, living in a Fifth Avenue apartment and taking a few acting roles amid a busy social life. Gibson caught every game in the 1909 World Series as the Pirates defeated the Detroit Tigers in seven games to win the world championship. Farrell Kimball, Sacramento Rules (VFR) meant that weather conditions over San Diego were clear enough for PSA 182s flight crew to utilize ground features and landmarks as navigational references. (Courtesy photo) Pekny's life changed at that instant. The San Diego-based airline was proud that it did not have a serious accident during its then 29-year-old history.13 There was a close call, however, on January 15, 1969. These included the immediate implementation of a Terminal Radar Service Area around Lindbergh Field, as well as a review and similar upgrade of other national airports. In 1978, Trevor's son Charles died in the crash of PSA Flight 182, followed by the death of her husband Milton from a brain tumor in 1979. David Bernard, Santa Monica SAN DIEGO (NEWS 8) September 25, 1978 is a date imprinted in the memories of many San Diegans. There is no memorial on Dwight Street to honor the victims, first responders, or volunteers.114 The three bronze memorial plaques dedicated to the crash victims are located some distance from the crash site. All 135 passengers and crew perished in the crash. While rushing toward a burning house, he stopped in his tracks. View all All Photos Tagged PSA 182 After leaving the Berendrecht lock, the "Voge Dignity" (IMO 9420851) is seen here passing the PSA Noordzee Terminal as the tanker sails downstream the river Scheldt and out to the anchorage in front of the Belgian coast to wait for orders. Supporting Chapmans claim was an unsuccessful 50-day strike by PSA pilots seeking improved work schedules.104, San Jose State University biologists also supported the case for pilot fatigue. In front of him was a talltree filled with human bodies strung from the tree like decorations. Standing transfixed, he just closed [his] eyes and thought, this is not happening. Shaking it off, he entered the house and spent the next two hours putting out fires and conducting additional house-to-house searches.59, Rankin was focused on his job when he met up with Smith at the end of Dwight Street. The resulting impact tore the Cessna in half, causing one of its internal fuel tanks to rupture and explode along the right wings leading edge.43, As the sound of the 175-180 mph impact and explosion reverberated throughout the jet airliners cockpit, Flight Engineer Wahne swore. PSA Flight 182 was a flight from LAX to San Diego that originated in Sacramento. Jeri Dickson, Los Angeles The Victims; THE MEMORIAL. Instead of immediately notifying either aircraft of an impending collision, nineteen seconds after the alarm Miramarreportedly only advised Cessna N7711G that there was traffic in your vicinity, a PSA jet has you in sight [which was erroneous], hes descending for Lindbergh. Neither Boswell nor Kazy acknowledged the transmission. Aircraft similar to Gibbs Flite Centers Cessna N7711G. All 135 on board the Boeing 727, both occupants of the Cessna and seven persons on the ground were killed. The Boeing 727 struck the Cessna 172 from above and behind, destroying it. Barbara Boisselle, Los Angeles, Bryce Bonner, Los Angeles Like many California kids of my generation from split families, I was something of a frequent flier of PSA (Pacific Southwest Airlines) as a child, being frequently shuttled between the bay area & my father's relatives in Southern California. Many people demanded that the airport be moved to a less populated area,anticipating that increased air traffic would result in an even greater disaster.97 Opponents, including then-Mayor Pete Wilson, countered that the location of the airport was not the problem. Jack Irwin, Sacramento Richard Plaskoff, Los Angeles At 8:53 flight 182 reported to Approach Control from a position north of San Diego at an altitude of 11,000 feet and was cleared to descend to 7,000 feet. BLS Re 425 182 is hauling a PSA car train Mulhouse - Trnava (SK), passing Unterterzen. While utilizing VFR, it would have to navigate and manipulate the aircraft utilizing a see and avoid approach to visually avoid obstructions, especially other aircraft.5, PSA 182s assigned flight corridor would take it diagonally across eastern Pacific Beach to Mission Valley, before turning eastward toward El Cajon. FLIGHT 182. Jane Whyte-Spitz, Bonita On both crashes, the final moments of the airliner were captured on photo: PSA 182 (pulitzer-prize winning photo!) Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) Flight 182 was a Boeing 727-214 commercial airliner, registration, N533PS that collided with a private Cessna 172 light aircraft, registration, N7711G over San Diego, California, at 9:01 am on Monday, September 25, 1978.It was Pacific Southwest Airlines' first accident involving fatalities. Crew Capt. Flight 182 remains the worst air disaster in California's history. Photographed : September 1974 - in original Kodachrome square mount. Leonard Barr, Loomis At the time, the population of London was approximately 35,000. James W. Dormer, San Diego 263K views 4 years ago This raw video was shot as News 8 reporters and photographers made their way to North Park to the scene of the PSA Flight 182 crash. the crash victims that PSA had the primary responsibility for the safety of the 135 passengers on its ill-fated Flight 182. In The News! Anthony Poli, San Diego A well-recognized aircraft flying over San Diego at the time, Flight 182s 10-year-old Boeing 727-214s distinguishing features included a sleek 153-footlong narrow fuselage, swept-back wings, and two opposing external engines mounted on either side of the rear fuselage below a high T-shaped vertical stabilizer. At 09:01:47.9, just as PSA Flight 182 tipped its right wing down into banked turn roughly 2,600 feet above the intersection of 30th Street and El Cajon Boulevard, it overtook and struck Cessna N7711G with its nose wheel. Once aircraft got below 2,500 feet, Lindbergh Fields control tower would take over all landing approach control procedures. Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182, with its wing aflame after a collision with a smaller plane, plunges to earth killing all passengers and crew, in San Diego, Sept. 25, 1978. Crash debris. German cigarette card by Ross Verlag in the 'Knstler im Film' series for Zigarettenfabrik Monopol, Dresden, Serie 1, image 164 (of 200). This is a scan of a photo I obtained years ago from the NTSB inquiring about the PSA 182 midair collision on 9.25.78 while on final to San Diego's Lindbergh Field. Photograph caption dated September 26, 1978 reads, "As workers prepare to remove more bodies from wreckage of the PSA jetliner." Type Image www.flickr.com/photos/45676495@N05/sets/72157623671588245.. PSA - Pacific Southwest Airlines B727-214 N533PS, PSA (Pacific Southwest Airlines) Boeing 727-214 (N***PS), 1909-11 / T206 White Border - GEORGE GIBSON (Catcher) - Pittsburgh Pirates (PSA Certified) (Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame 1987) (1909 / Sweet Caporal 150 / 30 Back) Tobacco / Cigarette Baseball Card (#182). These short flights connecting Californian cities made it a popular commuter flight for those that worked for PSA. About 08:16 hours local time a Gibbs Flite Center Cessna 172M, N7711G, departed San Diego . Expanded and relocated adjacent to the present Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, it is now known as the Southern California Terminal Radar Approach Control or TRACON.3, Because it was a clear Santa Ana wind morning, Miramar directed Captain McFeron to switch from Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) to Visual Flight Rules(VRF) procedures, and to begin his descent from 11,000 to 7,000 feet.4 Miramars direction to utilize Visual Flight. A mid-air collision between a Cessna 172 and a Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) Boeing 727 caused both planes to crash into the neighborhood below. Paula Blake, Playa del Rey What appeared to be a tubular engine cowling built into the base of the tails leading edge was actually the opening of an S-shaped intake duct leading to a third internal tail engine set in line horizontally with the two external engines.10 Like all PSA aircraft, it featured colorful fruit stripe fuchsia, orange, red, and white stripes and black-trimmed white PSA logos along its fuselage, with a whimsical black button nose and smiley face painted under the cockpit.11, Introduced in 1972, PSAs Grinningbirds were synonymous with the companys self-promoting ad campaign as the Worlds Friendliest Airline. The epitome of the Swinging Sixties, the airline often had been criticized for being too friendly: low air fares, comic cabin patter broadcast over the in-flight intercom, and attractive mini-skirt and later hot pants-wearing flight attendants instructed to make nice with the male passengers.12. SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (AP) _ Here is a list of victims whose remains have not been identified following the Dec. 7 crash of Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 that killed 43 people. Flight Attendant Debbie Nissen Neil, 37 . Samuel Molinaro, El Segundo With no other protection than a pair of surgical gloves, he placed small, same-colored flags near dismembered body parts that looked like they might belong to a nearby corpse. 619-232-6203, Located in Presidio Park Gary Moore, Sacramento Her second marriage in 1943 to Navy lieutenant Cylos William Dunsmore produced her only child, son Charles. Ronald Henry Burkley, Manhattan Beach PSA Flight 182 was a regularly scheduled flight from Sacramento to San Diego with a short stop at Los Angeles. More. --Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum. Martin J. Wahne, San Diego This image was created from separate unrelated photos to show approximately where the aircraft were just prior to impact (with the PSA overtaking the Cessna). Archives, San Diego Air and Space Museum, #06:01566. A total of 144 people were killed in the collision, including 135 people aboard PSA Flight 182, two men aboard the Cessna and seven people on the ground. George Johnson, Thousand Oaks They also noted the improper resolution of the conflict alert warning.103, Conspicuous by its absence from the report was disgruntled former PSA pilot Robert P. Chapmans prior claim that the NTSB had totally ignored pilot fatigue as a factor that contributed to the crash. Arnold Lee Califf, Poway Louise T. Martin, San Diego By that afternoon, they were calling the next of kin of all those confirmed dead.83 Of course our first concernis for the families of our regular passengers, PSA President William Shimp stated during a subsequent press interview, but we like to feel we [at PSA] are a family too, andfeel it as a family loss.84 PSA employees resolutely continued to schedule flights in and out of Lindbergh Field.85. In 1957, she won an Emmy for her role as the flighty wife of Fredric March in the Producers' Showcase episode entitled Dodsworth (Alex Segal, 1956). Within a month, Robinson recanted, explaining that a police officer who had been involved intransporting prisoners had given him the information at a prisoner-processing center. Gregg N. Lindamood, 43, Julian, Calif. First Officer James Howard Nunn, 48, Upland, Calif. Aerial view of crash scene. HOME. Nellie Jackson, Sacramento In 1930, aged 20, she signed with Warner Bros. Not far from her home in Brooklyn was Vitagraph Studios, the last and best of the early sound process studios, which had been acquired by Warner Bros. and had become Vitaphone in 1925. Don Ashcroft, Sacramento Aeromexico 498. Wayne Allen Levin, Beverly Hills Timothy DeLucca, Aptos The death toll of 144 makes it the deadliest aircraft disaster in . Colleen A. Kepler, San Diego Leonard's. Trevor appeared in several of the nearly 2000 shorts cranked out by the studio between 1926 and 1930. According to two now-famous photographs taken by San Diego County staff photographer George Wendt, the impacting Cessna had torn away or damaged about 30 feet of hydraulically actuated control slats and flaps along the starboard wings leading edge.50 Used to enhance the aircrafts lifting and anti-stalling properties at low-speeds, their loss, plus the severing of associated hydraulic and electrical lines, caused the wing to drop.51 Despite the cabin crews best efforts to regain control, the aircraft, according to ground witnesses, just nose-dived to [its] right trailing a plume of smoke from a fire in its wing root.52, As his aircraft streaked towards the ground at over 300 mph, Captain McFerons last known radio transmission to Lindbergh Control was, This is it, baby. 53 Seconds before impact, Captain McFeron gave his last command, Brace yourself. Followed by someone in the cabin muttering, Hey baby, and a plaintive, Ma, I love yah.54, At 09:02:07, the jet linerafter traveling some 3,500 feet from the initial mid-air collision point on a heading of about 200 degrees in a right wing-low, nose down attitudeslammed nose-first approximately 80 feet northeast of the intersectionof Nile and Dwight Streets. Air India Flight 182 was an Air India flight operating on the Montreal, Canada-London, UK-Delhi, India route. All 152 passengers and crew aboard perished. Among them were journalist John Britton and cameraman Steve Howell. Flight Officer Fox responded, Its bad. When asked to elaborate, he emphatically stated, Were hit, man; we are hit!48 Three seconds later, Captain McFeron calmly notified Lindbergh Field, Tower, were going down, this is PSA. Lindbergh Control responded with, Okay, well call the equipment for you.49, PSA Flight 182s true condition made it impossible that it would reach Lindberg Field. Janet Dolson, Inglewood Where did all these people come from? 60 What Rankin was referring to were hundreds of first responders, civilian, military and religious volunteers who were bravely putting out fires, searching for victims, saying prayers over and recovering bodies, as well as keeping looters or souvenir hunters out of the area well into the night.61, There were conflicting reports regarding looting at the crash site. If an approaching vehicle gets too close, the system automatically engages the vehicles braking system, thereby avoiding a dangerous collision. Two bodies slammed into a car on Boundary Street. James Seaman, Manhattan Beach Walter Smith, Citrus Heights From The Tribune, Friday, May 29, 1987: Gibson was in his prime during the 1909 season when he caught in 134 consecutive games, breaking the previous record of 133 consecutive games played as a catcher set by Deacon McGuire in 1895. Her third and final Oscar nomination was for her performance in the disaster film The High and the Mighty (William A. Wellman, 1954) with John Wayne. Here she is in better days, in the company's second c/s, with the first full black titles. Years later, another first responder, SDPD officer Bill Farrar, lamented, I drive by the crash location about once a year. Public domain. He was subsequently inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum in 1987 and was one of the inaugural 10 inductees into the London Sports Hall of Fame in 2002. These included the local air traffic controllers use of visual separation procedures when radar was available, and their failure to advise the flight crew of Cessna N7711Gs direction of movement. PSA Flight 182 Disaster 1978, San Diego, USA A priest gives the last rites to the bodies of victims brought to a temporary morgue in St. Augustine High School in San Diego, after a plane crash disaster involving a Boeing 727 jetliner and a Cessna 172. The museum rescued one that had been removed from its original location near the entrance to the PSA headquarters building on Harbor Drive after USAir purchased PSA in 1987.115 If a future memorial is built on or closer to the crash site, its design and placement should not intrude upon what is once again a quiet unassuming streetscape. As evidence they cited a remark by Captain McFeron before taking off from Los Angeles. The body and chassis of the car were made from aluminium and composite materials, following on from the all-aluminium X350 launched in 2002. He also did not want any of their vehicles running over any bodies strewn across the streets.69 He later said, [The fire crews] really didnt need orders from methey saw the fires, they saw the hydrants, and they went into action, laying down lines of hoses and beginning to fight the fires. After encircling and converging upon the fires core, they were able to keep the fires confined to Dwight Street.70, Several local radio and television crews broadcast from the site. Joann Metzler, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada There were 3 other arrests for removing aircraft debris, or evidence, from the scene of an accident. Return to Dwight and Nile: The Crash of PSA Flight 182: Directed by David Fresina. PSA 182 is a major part of San Diego's history. Carl Miller, Davis Three years later, he had a plaque memorializing the Flight 182 victims installed in the PSA exhibit at the San Diego Air & Space Museum. While dragging a fire hose along the street, Rankin noticed, My feet didnt feel right on what was supporting me. According to his later recollections, it was as if he were walking on an unstable mound. As the smoke cleared, he realized that he was stepping on maybe thirty bodies piled ten to twelve feet round and about a foot and a half highjust a mound of body parts.58, A ten-year SDFD veteran, Rankin was hardened to the sight of dead and mutilated human bodies. 99. The names of five crew members and 32 of the passengers aboard Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771, which crashed Monday in San Luis Obispo County, killing 43 people, were released by the . Lindbergh Field is presently in its original location.98 Following a one-year investigation, the NTSB concluded that PSA 182s cabin crew was primarily responsible for the mid-air collision that led to the crash because they had not notified Lindbergh Control that they had lost visual contact with Cessna N7711G.99, Pressure from flight crew and airline pilot associations, however, compelled the NTSB to reopen the case.100 The Air Line Pilots Association, for example, pointed out a major flaw in the see-and-avoid approach. They argued that such an approach frequently produced erroneous identification by pilots of air traffic reported by controllers.101 Another critic, J. W. Olcott, proposed in the August 1979 issue of Business and Commercial Aviation that the PSA flight crew had a significant factor working against themthe subconscious belief that [Air Traffic Control] and the radar environmentwould protect them from the catastrophe of a midair collision.102, While it did not exonerate the PSA flight crew, an amended NTSB 1982 report cited other factors that contributed to the crash. Now, 36 years later, San Diegans. This photo demonstrates the full leading edge extension of the (PSA) Boeing 727. 35 years later, there is still no memorial marking the place where so many lost their lives. At 8.13 a.m. the pilot made initial contact with Shannon . Lisa Denise Davis, Lakeside San Diego, CA 92101, For general inquiries: DONATE. GET INVOLVED. St. Augustine Roman Catholic High School one-half mile southwest of the crash site. The ill-fated flight was attempting to land in dense fog and heavy rain when it struck a hill in Islamabad, Pakistan. It also recommends avoidance maneuvers.111, The crash of PSA Flight 182 also played a role in the development of anticollision technology for automobiles. The San Diego Approach Control at Miramar would be responsible for all aircraft flying within this invisible 30-mile diameter zone between 12,500 and 2,500 feet altitude. The death toll of 144 makes it the deadliest aircraft disaster in California history. After impact, both planes began to fall toward earth. Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) Flight 182, registration N533PS, was a Boeing 727-214 commercial airliner that collided with a private Cessna 172 over San Diego, California on September 25, 1978. Surviving resident Stanley Cichy reports that the rebuilt neighborhood, Looks normal againdifferent, but normal. On or near the September 25 anniversary date, people often leave signs and flowers, or scrawl the names of the crash victims in colored chalk at the corner sidewalk across from Nile and Dwight Streets. The shaken Cessna pilot returned immediately to the San Francisco airport. The PSA was about to land when the collision occurred, crash landing in a San Diego suburban neighborhood and killing 144 people, in both the plane and on the ground. Volunteers removing aircraft engine debris in front of Nile and Dwight Streets. In Key Largo (John Huston, 1948), Trevor played Gaye Dawn, the washed-up nightclub singer and gangster's moll. On this morning, some 29 years ago, right at about 9:00 am, a PSA (Pacific Southwest Airlines) plane was heading in for a landing at the downtown airport Lindberg Field. Four minutes later the jet informed Approach Control that the airport was in sight, and the controller cleared them for a visual approach to Lindbergh runway 27. Robert Levine, San Diego, David Loeb, Santa Monica One day after the crash, the San Diego edition of The Los Angeles Times reported, five persons were arrested for looting, but officers said others escaped in the confusion. It quoted SDPD spokesperson Bill Robinson, People were taking anything they could grab. Some, according to Robinson, were seen carrying off armfuls of valuables.62, Incensed by a Chicago-based, nationwide news broadcast that battlehardened Marines were guarding the crash site from looters, San Diego Mayor Pete Wilson ordered his staff to investigate the allegations. 41 of 43 Victims Identified With PM-Plane Crash, Bjt December 9, 1987 SAN DIEGO (AP) _ The names of five crew members and 36 passengers aboard Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771, which crashed Monday in San Luis Obispo County, killing 43 people, were released by the airline and other sources. He later became a minor league manager for the Toronto Maple Leafs before returning to the major leagues as a manager for the Pirates and the Chicago Cubs. Lee H. Johnson, La Jolla Photo: Fox. There were few bodies to speak ofonly piecesI was no stranger to dead bodies, but I wasnt ready to see the torso of a stewardess slammed against a car. The husband and daughter of Rosalia Lococo, a PSA 182 passenger, sought $750,000 to $1.4 million in damages from Pacific Southwest Airlines and Gibbs Flying Service. It carried 135 passengers and crew. The facts surrounding the collision of the aircraft are not in dispute. It was a fully functional var unveiled at the German Motor Show in Frankfurt in September 2003in LHD to European specification. Both crashes lead to some death-toll on the ground as well! A post-collision report determined that both pilots had failed to see and avoid the other aircraft.14 This incident was chillingly similar to what would take place over San Diego nine years . 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