Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182
1978 mid-air collision over San Diego / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182 was a scheduled flight of Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) from Sacramento to San Diego with a stopover at Los Angeles. On September 25, 1978, the Boeing 727-214[lower-alpha 1] serving the flight, registration of N533PS, collided with a private Cessna 172 light aircraft, registration N7711G, over San Diego, California. It was Pacific Southwest Airlines' first fatal accident, and it remains the deadliest air disaster in California history. At the time, it was the deadliest air crash to occur in the United States, and remained so until American Airlines Flight 191 crashed in May 1979.
Accident | |
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Date | September 25, 1978 (September 25, 1978) |
Summary | Mid-air collision resulting from pilot error on the Boeing 727 and ATC error |
Site | North Park, near San Diego International Airport, San Diego, California, United States 32°44′38.2″N 117°07′13.4″W |
Total fatalities | 144 |
Total injuries | 9 (on ground) |
Total survivors | 0 (in either aircraft) |
First aircraft | |
N533PS, the Boeing 727 involved in the accident three months prior to the collision | |
Type | Boeing 727-214 |
Operator | Pacific Southwest Airlines |
IATA flight No. | PS182 |
ICAO flight No. | PSA182 |
Call sign | PSA 182 |
Registration | N533PS |
Flight origin | Sacramento International Airport |
Stopover | Los Angeles International Airport |
Destination | San Diego International Airport |
Occupants | 135 |
Passengers | 128 |
Crew | 7 |
Fatalities | 135 |
Survivors | 0 |
Second aircraft | |
N7711G, the Cessna 172 involved in the accident in a previous livery | |
Type | Cessna 172 |
Operator | Gibbs Flite Center, Inc.[1] |
Call sign | CESSNA 7711 GOLF |
Registration | N7711G |
Flight origin | Montgomery Field, San Diego, California[1] |
Occupants | 2 |
Passengers | 0 |
Crew | 2 |
Fatalities | 2 |
Survivors | 0 |
Ground casualties | |
Ground fatalities | 7 |
Ground injuries | 9 |
Both aircraft crashed into North Park, a San Diego neighborhood. PSA 182 struck just north of the intersection of Dwight and Nile streets, killing all 135 people aboard the aircraft and seven people on the ground in houses, including two children. The Cessna struck Polk Avenue between 32nd and Iowa streets, killing the two pilots on board. Nine others on the ground were injured and a total of twenty-two residences were destroyed or damaged by the impact and debris.