Although the wing was on fire and missing several large sections, investigators noted that the ailerons were at their full extension, indicating that hydraulic power was present to move them, and that the pilots application of full left roll was unable to stop the plane from banking right. he tossed the discarded clothes in the garbage. This portrayal of the accident did not sit well with all the board members who were responsible for the investigation. PSA 182: A Tragic Lack of Awareness | Jeb Bohn The instructor was identified by Gibbs as Martin Kazy, 32. A memorial plaque, with the names of the 144 people who died in the 1978 crash of Pacific Southwest Airlines flight 182, is part of the PSA exhibit at the San Diego Air & Space Museum in Balboa . Several persons saw a man try to bail out of the small plane, but his fate was unknown. I just thought she was going to come back on another flight., As word of the tragedy spread, many San Diegans tried to help. Keying his mic, McFeron broadcast a frantic distress call. The Cessna impacted on Polk Ave. between 32nd St. and Iowa St. killing the two on board. San Diego A packed Pacific Southwest Airlines jet and a student pilots rented plane collided head-on Monday, and both planes crashed in flaming fragments into a populous residential area. His six-page dissent on PSA 182 acknowledged that the airliners crew was partially to blame but so were the inadequacies of the air traffic control system. He blasted the see and avoid system, labelling it outmoded, and slammed the decision to ignore the alarms blaring in Miramars San Diego Approach Control Facility. In San Diego a major PSA commercial airliner, Flight 182, crashed after colliding with a small Cessna. One potential passenger, Jack Ridout, a survivor of the Tenerife airport disaster the year before, had also booked a ticket on Flight 182 from Los Angeles, but cancelled his booking to leave for home the day before. San Diego People in this citys Northpark area were stunned and shocked Monday after a Pacific Southwest Airlines 727 jet and a small airplane collided, strewing charred bodies and fiery wreckage across streets, alleys and rooftops. McAdams also added the "possible misidentification of the Cessna by the PSA aircrew due to the presence of a third unknown aircraft in the area" as a contributing factor. In the NTSBs view, this represented an unnecessary and potentially dangerous degradation of the redundancy in the system, especially given that see and avoid as a concept had been considered flawed since at least the 1950s. The crash site was cordoned off by police and remained so for an entire year. The fact that the pilots involved in the collision lost sight of each other while under see and avoid rules, and the proper steps to return to radar-based separation did not occur, underscored the danger inherent in giving up positive radar separation in the first place. In fact, right up until the moment of the collision, they would have believed that the PSA pilots were taking the necessary steps to keep clear of them.
