Sacramento - Los Angeles - San Diego

On September 25, 1978 at 09:02 AM, Sacramento - Los Angeles - San Diego experienced a crash involving Boeing 727-200, operated by Pacific Southwest Airlines - PSA, with the event recorded near San Diego California.

The flight was categorized as scheduled revenue flight and the reported phase was landing (descent or approach) at a city crash site.

135 people were known to be on board, 142 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 105.2%.

Crew on board: 7, crew fatalities: 7, passengers on board: 128, passenger fatalities: 128, other fatalities: 7.

The listed crash cause is human factor. The crew was completing flight PS182 from Sacramento to San Diego with an intermediate stop in Los Angeles. While descending to San Diego-Lindbergh Field runway 27, the crew was informed about the presence of a Cessna 172M registered N7711G and operated by the Gibbs Flight Center. The single engine airplane just departed San Diego Airport for a local training mission with one student pilot and one instructor on board. At 0901:47, at an altitude of 2,600 feet and 3 NM northeast of San Diego Airport, both airplane collided. Out of control, they dove into the ground and crashed into several houses and the 805 highway located between the districts of Altadena and City Heights. Both aircraft disintegrated on impact and all 137 occupants in both aircraft were killed as well as seven people on the ground. Nine other people on the ground were seriously injured as dozen houses were destroyed.

Aircraft reference details include registration N533PS, MSN 19688/589, year of manufacture 1968.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 32.7288°, -117.1528°.