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Subj: Today in History - Sep 25
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Sep 25, 1978:
Mid-air collision kills 153
A Pacific Southwest Airlines jet collides in mid-air with a small
Cessna over San Diego, killing 153 people on this day in 1978.
The wreckage of the planes fell into a populous neighborhood and
did extensive damage on the ground.
David Lee Boswell and his instructor, Martin Kazy, were in the
process of a flying lesson in a single-engine Cessna 1732 on the
morning of September 25, practicing approaches at San Diego's
Lindbergh Field airport. After two successful passes, Boswell
aimed the Cessna toward the Montgomery Field airport northeast of
San Diego.
At the same time, Pacific Southwest Flight 182 was approaching
San Diego. The jet, a Boeing 727, was carrying 144 passengers and
crew members from Sacramento, after a stopover in Los Angeles.
Though air-traffic controllers at Lindbergh had told Boswell to
keep the Cessna below 3,500 feet altitude as it flew northeast,
the Cessna did not comply and changed course without informing
the controllers.
The pilots of Flight 182 could see the Cessna clearly at 9 a.m.,
but soon lost sight of it and failed to inform the controllers.
Meanwhile, the conflict-alert warning system began to flash at
the air-traffic control center. However, because the alert system
went off so frequently with false alarms, it was ignored. The
controllers believed that the pilots of the 727 had the Cessna in
view. Within a minute, the planes collided.
The fuel in the 727 burst into a massive fireball upon impact. A
witness on the ground reported that she saw her "apples and
oranges bake on the trees." The planes nose-dived straight into
San Diego's North Park neighborhood, destroying 22 homes and
killing seven people on the ground. All 144 people on the 727
were killed, as well as both of the Cessna's pilots.
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