Monday marks 45 years since 144 people lost their lives in the Pacific Southwest AirlinesFlight 182 crash on September 25, 1978. It is recognized as the deadliest aviation crash in California history.
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Southwest is one of the few major U.S.-based carriers to have never had a fatal crash. In 2018, a New Mexico woman was killed when an engine exploded on a Southwest flight after it took off from New York. The blast sent shrapnel through one of the jet's windows, and the victim was partly sucking out of the plane.
All 135 people aboard Flight 182 and two aboard the Cessna were killed along with seven people on the ground, including two children. Nine people on the ground were also injured.
The last words of the flight deck personnel recorded by the Cockpit Voice Recorder were that of an unidentified voice saying, “Ma, I love you.” The Pilot in Command of Flight 182, Captain James E. McFeron, had been employed by Pacific Southwest Airlines since 1961.
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Photo by Amy Dreher. The story of the sacrifice of pilots and crewmembers aboard the four flights hijacked on 9/11 – American Airlines Flight 11, American Airlines Flight 77, United Airlines Flight 93, and United Airlines Flight 175 – is integral to the history of the day.
Pan Am Flight 1736 and KLM Flight 4805On March 27, 1977, two Boeing 747 passenger jets collided on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport (now Tenerife North Airport), on the Spanish island of Tenerife, Canary Islands. The crash killed 583 people, making it the deadliest accident in aviation history.
Some passengers may suffer permanent brain damage that prevents them from working or living independently. Broken bones. Even a so-called minor accident can cause extremely painful fractures in a passenger's hands, feet, arms, legs, or ribs. Back injuries.
Craig Hutain, the sole pilot and fatality aboard the Bell P-63, had started flying solo at the age of 17 and was a former commercial pilot for Rocky Mountain Airways (1982–1985) and United Airlines (1985–2022). Hutain started flying as a child with his father, a World War II veteran, and had been a pilot for the Tora!