The shaken Cessna pilot returned immediately to the San Francisco airport. A re-enactment of what happened during a 1978 plane collision over North Park (a community in San Diego). PSA flight 182 goes down in flames over San Diego. Known as a see and avoid situation, they had to maintain constant visual surveillance on the Cessna until it landed or proceeded on a diverging course. In 1937, she was the second lead actress after top-billed Sylvia Sidney in the crime drama Dead End (William Wyler, 1937), with Humphrey Bogart. Once aircraft got below 2,500 feet, Lindbergh Fields control tower would take over all landing approach control procedures. At 8.13 a.m. the pilot made initial contact with Shannon . The two furthest away are large bronze plaques now on display at a PSA exhibit in Balboa Parks San Diego Air & Space Museum. Robert Sinclair Silver, Marina Del Rey, KirkSmith, Palo Alto The San Diego Approach Control at Miramar would be responsible for all aircraft flying within this invisible 30-mile diameter zone between 12,500 and 2,500 feet altitude. info@sandiegohistory.org One day after the crash, the San Diego edition of The Los Angeles Times reported, five persons were arrested for looting, but officers said others escaped in the confusion. It quoted SDPD spokesperson Bill Robinson, People were taking anything they could grab. Some, according to Robinson, were seen carrying off armfuls of valuables.62, Incensed by a Chicago-based, nationwide news broadcast that battlehardened Marines were guarding the crash site from looters, San Diego Mayor Pete Wilson ordered his staff to investigate the allegations. I keep meaning to send you stuff about PSA Flight . John Dumas, Los Angeles Jim Stinnett, Los Angeles Gibson made his major league debut July 2, 1905 at the age of 24. Betty Maxine Thweatt, Manhattan Beach Flight 182 was now descending through 2,600 feet (793 meters). British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London, no. The facts surrounding the collision of the aircraft are not in dispute. But those versions were impractical due to their complexity.110 The current TCAS, introduced in 1987, is now installed in all commercial passenger and most commercial cargo airplanes. So was San Diego Police Department (SDPD) Deputy Chief Duke Nyhus who directed the officers andcivilians who bravely climbed into burning houses to look for victims. The PSA pilot, after assessing that the damage was negligible, chose to continue to his intended destination. St. Augustine High School priests Father James Clifford and Father John Ranallo suffered shock after what they saw before them.89 As he knelt over a yellow plastic body bag containing what looked like a human being, Father Clifford confided, John, I dont think I can do this. I cant either, said the young priest, but, maybe we can do it together They administered last rites at the temporary morgue for the rest of the day.90 They regarded the simple act as The last touch that can be given to a fellow human being in the name of the family who couldnt say goodbye to them. Father Ranallo later confessed that At least [it] was something we could do when we saw the futility [of our being there].91, Weeks, months, and years later, many first responders suffered from bouts of melancholia, crying for no reason or waking up from nightmares brought about by what is now called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.92 As one first responder, a uniformed serviceman, noted at the crash site, Now you know what we went through in Vietnam.93. The question remained, where was Cessna N7711G? At 8:53 flight 182 reported to Approach Control from a position north of San Diego at an altitude of 11,000 feet and was cleared to descend to 7,000 feet. FLIGHT 182. San Diego A packed Pacific Southwest Airlines jet and a student pilot's rented plane collided head-on Monday, and both planes crashed in flaming fragments into a populous residential area. Wayne Allen Levin, Beverly Hills The PSA plane, Flight 182 from Sacramento to Los Angeles, was on its landing approach when it collided with the Cessna 150 two-seater at 3,000 feet, the Federal Aviation Administration said. The 110-ton jet liner hooked and flipped the 2,100-pound Cessna upside down into the airliners right wing. The next year, she made her film debut with a leading role in the Western Life in the Raw (Louis King, 1933) opposite George O'Brien. Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) Flight 182, registration N533PS, was a Boeing 727-214 commercial airliner that collided with a private Cessna 172 over San Diego, California on September 25, 1978. Many had personally worked with at least one person on Flight 182. David L. Jolliffe, Los Angeles The crash occurred in 1948 and the hand was found in 1999. Joseph McMasters, Sacramento At 08:59:50, First Officer Fox responded, Ok, weve got that other twelve. Thiswould indicate that there were two smaller private aircraft flying dead ahead and below his aircraft.23. All 135 on board the Boeing 727, both occupants of the Cessna and seven persons on the ground were killed. San Diego, CA 920103, Meetings, Lectures & Workshops History Center. A total of 144 lives were lost including 7 people on the ground as well as the two people in the Cessna light aircraft. 2727 Presidio Drive Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) Flight 182 was a Boeing 727-214 commercial airliner, registration, N533PS that collided with a private Cessna 172 light aircraft, registration, N7711G over San Diego, California, at 9:01 am on Monday, September 25, 1978.It was Pacific Southwest Airlines' first accident involving fatalities. The Boeing 727 struck the Cessna 172 from above and behind, destroying it. She also performed in summer stock theatre. Archives, San Diego Air and Space Museum, #06:01568. Revisiting the tragic story of the 1978 crash of PSA Flight 182 in San Diego. All 135 passengers and crew perished in the crash. Claire Trevor was born Claire Wemlinger in 1910 in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Expanded and relocated adjacent to the present Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, it is now known as the Southern California Terminal Radar Approach Control or TRACON.3, Because it was a clear Santa Ana wind morning, Miramar directed Captain McFeron to switch from Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) to Visual Flight Rules(VRF) procedures, and to begin his descent from 11,000 to 7,000 feet.4 Miramars direction to utilize Visual Flight. --Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum, pictionid66255576 - f PSA flight 182 on fire on September 25 1978 in San Diego Boeing 727-214 on fire after mid-air collision- titlearray - filename072203 hop 001cropped.jpg---Image from the SDASM Curatorial Collection.Note: This material may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.) Instead of relying primarily on pilots use of the flawed see and avoid procedure, air traffic controllers would now use mandatory ground-based positive radar control to monitor and direct all approaching and departing aircraft.106, On May 15, 1980, the FAA established a Class B (Class Bravo) Airspace over Lindbergh Field. St. Augustine Roman Catholic High School one-half mile southwest of the crash site. Trevor married Clark Andrews, director of her radio show, in 1938, but they divorced four years later. James W. Dormer, San Diego With no other protection than a pair of surgical gloves, he placed small, same-colored flags near dismembered body parts that looked like they might belong to a nearby corpse. Azmi David Taha, Vista, Allen Tetelman, Los Angeles Louise T. Martin, San Diego Olga Roblesde Huante, San Diego Rubble from a dozen homes and wreckage from PSA Flight 182 on Dwight Street after it and a Cessna collided on Sept. 25, 1978. These were moved to an empty building associated with the General Dynamics-Convair plant at Lindbergh Field. The PSA was about to land when the collision occurred, crash landing in a San Diego suburban neighborhood and killing 144 people, in both the plane and on the ground. More than 70 similar cases. After setting up a fire command center at the Sav-On drug store parking lot at University Avenue and 32nd Street, SDFD Battalion Chief Robert Osby jogged seven blocks south to the crash site to ascertain the situation.64 Arriving ahead of most city fire companies, Chief Osby was stunned to see a huge aircraft tail section lying in the street. In San Diego a major PSA commercial airliner, Flight 182, crashed after colliding with a small Cessna. There were few bodies to speak ofonly piecesI was no stranger to dead bodies, but I wasnt ready to see the torso of a stewardess slammed against a car. The husband and daughter of Rosalia Lococo, a PSA 182 passenger, sought $750,000 to $1.4 million in damages from Pacific Southwest Airlines and Gibbs Flying Service. Incredulously, Miramar did not inform PSA 182 or Lindbergh Control about the conflict alert warning.42, At 09:01:47.9, just as PSA Flight 182 tipped its right wing down into banked turn roughly 2,600 feet above the intersection of 30th Street and El Cajon Boulevard, it overtook and struck Cessna N7711G with its nose wheel. Jack Irwin, Sacramento Ralph Schueler, Sacramento Authors collection. The crash damaged or destroyed about 28 houses. In Key Largo (John Huston, 1948), Trevor played Gaye Dawn, the washed-up nightclub singer and gangster's moll. He was learning the intricacies of the aircrafts ILS or Instrument Landing System.17 Once certified, Boswell could land any ILS-equipped aircraft at night or under adverse weather conditions following an airport-emitted radio beam without seeing its runway until just before touching down.18, Although it was the nations busiest single runway airport, Lindbergh Field was the only airport in San Diego County set up for ILS certification training. GET INVOLVED. Andrea Jacobson, Belmont Shores Location : KSFO / San Francisco Int'l Airport. In 1930, aged 20, she signed with Warner Bros. Not far from her home in Brooklyn was Vitagraph Studios, the last and best of the early sound process studios, which had been acquired by Warner Bros. and had become Vitaphone in 1925. Mary Beard, Sacramento SDHC #92:18835-2062. In a rather unpleasant way, in more modern cases where decomposition is a factor, a common feature of the decomposition process actually aids in fingerprinting victims. Flight Officer Fox responded, Its bad. When asked to elaborate, he emphatically stated, Were hit, man; we are hit!48 Three seconds later, Captain McFeron calmly notified Lindbergh Field, Tower, were going down, this is PSA. Lindbergh Control responded with, Okay, well call the equipment for you.49, PSA Flight 182s true condition made it impossible that it would reach Lindberg Field. In 1978, Trevor's son Charles died in the crash of PSA Flight 182, followed by the death of her husband Milton from a brain tumor in 1979. The airliner was heavily damaged and on fire. The marriage ended in divorce in 1947. On September 25, 1978, a PSA airliner. SDHC #727-214: N533PS. An experienced PSA flight crew, however, should have been able to differentiate between the larger twin-engine, low-wing, six-to-eight-passenger Cessna 401 and the smaller single-engine, high-wing, four-passenger Cessna 172 at close range.34, It is entirely possible that, at 09:01:38, seven seconds after lowering the airliners landing gear, Flight Officer Foxs radio transmission, Theres one underneath and I was looking at that inbound there, could have meant that he was referring to the Cessna 401 flying along a western heading to conduct practice ILS landings.35 If Captain McFeron had informed Lindbergh Control that he had lost visual contact with Cessna N7711G, the latter would have stopped PSA 182s descent and told them to hold their position.36. All 152 passengers and crew aboard perished. It is difficult for many people to go back to the crash site in North Park. Photo: R.K.O. For that role, she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Kevin Burke Wholey, Santa Monica Photograph caption dated September 26, 1978 reads, "As workers prepare to remove more bodies from wreckage of the PSA jetliner." Type Image The scattered remains also included those of seven North Park residents ranging in age from a 3-year-old at a daycare center to an 82-year-old grandmother in her home.76 Ambulances waiting to transport injured crash victims instead carried their bagged remains about a half mile southwest to the St. Augustine Roman Catholic High School gym building at 33rd and Nutmeg Streets. Reading about that accident, I think of all of the flight attendants who looked after me during my frequent trips as an 'unaccompanied minor', and I can't help but wonder if I lost a friend without knowing it that day. However, It was just too hot [and] there were too many [pieces] Cassidy said. Thomas Womack Jr., El Cajon From 1937 to 1940, she appeared with Edward G. Robinson in the popular radio series 'Big Town' while continuing to make films. According to Robinson, police had made between 40 to 43 arrests that day on charges of failing to disperse. He also did not want any of their vehicles running over any bodies strewn across the streets.69 He later said, [The fire crews] really didnt need orders from methey saw the fires, they saw the hydrants, and they went into action, laying down lines of hoses and beginning to fight the fires. After encircling and converging upon the fires core, they were able to keep the fires confined to Dwight Street.70, Several local radio and television crews broadcast from the site. Radio. From The Tribune, Friday, May 29, 1987: Gibson was in his prime during the 1909 season when he caught in 134 consecutive games, breaking the previous record of 133 consecutive games played as a catcher set by Deacon McGuire in 1895. Barbara Jackson, Los Angeles At the time, PSA Flight 182 was the U.S.'s deadliest commercial air disaster, surpassed eight months later on Friday, May 25, 1979, when American Airlines Flight 191 (a McDonnell Douglas DC-10) crashed in Chicago. The PSA Flight 182 Historical Committee continues to work with local officials to find a permanent location in the neighborhood for a memorial plaque -- one already exists at the San Diego Air and . On September 25, 1978, as Flight 182 descended to 4,000 feet above Mission Bay, Miramar directed Captain McFeron to notify Lindbergh Fields air traffic control that he was now entering its Terminal Service Area, which would provide him with radar vectoring, sequencing and traffic advisories prior to his landing on runway 27.15 Before transitioning control, Miramar advised Captain McFeron that a Cessna 172 Skylark, call sign N7711G, was heading in his direction.16, The Cessna N7711G was owned by the Gibbs Flite Center which operated a flight school out of Montgomery Field, a small general aviation airport located four miles northeast of Lindbergh. Judy Allen, Los Angeles Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182, with its wing aflame after a collision with a smaller plane, plunges to earth killing all passengers and crew, in San Diego, Sept. 25, 1978. Aircraft similar to Gibbs Flite Centers Cessna N7711G. Lisa Denise Davis, Lakeside Hood Cheney, Dallas Due to mandated FAA limitations on working hours, some flight crew personnel were restricted from operating the aircraft on return flights to San Diego. 41 of 43 Victims Identified With PM-Plane Crash, Bjt December 9, 1987 SAN DIEGO (AP) _ The names of five crew members and 36 passengers aboard Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771, which crashed Monday in San Luis Obispo County, killing 43 people, were released by the airline and other sources. For her contribution to the film industry, she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6933 Hollywood Boulevard. PSA Flight 182's crew lost sight of the light aircraft below them, resulting in a deadly mid-air collision (Image: Wikimedia Commons) McFeron can then be heard talking to the air traffic controllers, saying: "Tower, we're going down, this is PSA." Seconds later, he says. Tragic PSA Crash Flight 182 Sept 25, 1978, Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive. Christine Davie, Carlsbad Gary Fox, Culver City, Richard Hight, Citrus Heights 809. The San Diego-based airline was proud that it did not have a serious accident during its then 29-year-old history.13 There was a close call, however, on January 15, 1969. The force of the crash, people who viewed the scene said, had left the victims unrecognizable, with limbs hanging from trees or left in blood-smeared patches up to 200 yards from the point of impact. Flight Attendant Debbie Nissen Neil, 37 . The museum rescued one that had been removed from its original location near the entrance to the PSA headquarters building on Harbor Drive after USAir purchased PSA in 1987.115 If a future memorial is built on or closer to the crash site, its design and placement should not intrude upon what is once again a quiet unassuming streetscape. Volunteers covered bodies with sheets or blankets and brought pitchers of iced water to first responders laboring in 101-degree heat. 144 people, including 7 on the ground, were killed in the crash. Aeromexico 498. Her role as a slum girl forced by poverty into prostitution led to her nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Michael Fitzgerald, San Diego George C. Gibson (b. July 22, 1880 d. January 25, 1967 at age 86), nicknamed Mooney, was a Canadian professional baseball player, coach, scout and manager. Dave Schmidt, Sacramento --Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum. After completing high school, Trevor began her career with six months of art classes at Columbia University and six months at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) Flight 182 was a Boeing 727-214 commercial airliner, registration, N533PS that collided with a private Cessna 172 light aircraft, registration, N7711G over San Diego, California on September 25, 1978.It was Pacific Southwest Airlines' first accident involving fatalities. At 9:01 and 47 seconds, the right wing of PSA 182 struck the Cessna, swatting it out of the sky. Her most memorable performance during this period was the Western Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939) with John Wayne in his breakthrough role. She played Charlotte, the mother of Kay (Sally Field) in her final film, the romantic comedy Kiss Me Goodbye (Robert Mulligan, 1982). San Diego, CA 92101, For general inquiries: German cigarette card by Ross Verlag in the 'Knstler im Film' series for Zigarettenfabrik Monopol, Dresden, Serie 1, image 164 (of 200). Two days later, just before midnight on September 23rd 2021, the vessel headed back to Antwerp where it berthed at the Sea-Tank Terminal at the Kanaal dock B2. Neil Howard Jagoba, Framingham, MA The Journal of San Diego History Photographed : September 1974 - in original Kodachrome square mount. Officials said at least 147 persons were killed in the worst air disaster in US history. In response, at 08:59:01 Lindbergh Tower instructed him to maintain VFR procedures no higher than 3,500 feet and to contact the Miramar Approach Control Center for further instructions.21 After doing so, at 08:59:57 Miramar told him that they had him on radar at an altitude of 1,500 feet, and reiterated Lindberghs directions to stay below 3,500 feet along a northeasterly 70 degree heading.22, Previously, at 08:59.30, Miramar had notified PSA 182 of traffic [at] twelve oclock, one mile, northbound. Captain McFeron responded, Were looking. Six seconds later, Miramar reported Cessna N7711G (Boswell and Kazys aircraft) as additional traffic on a northeast course at an altitude of 1,400 feet and climbing. Wilhelmina Mottola, San Diego KSDO radio news director Joe Gillespie calmly relayed up-to-date information from the crash site via a two-way car radio to his stations morning news announcer, Hal Brown. Four minutes later the jet informed Approach Control that the airport was in sight, and the controller cleared them for a visual approach to Lindbergh runway 27. The ill-fated flight was attempting to land in dense fog and heavy rain when it struck a hill in Islamabad, Pakistan. San Diegans who regarded PSA as their regional airline shared their loss.95, Images of the crash remained vivid for eyewitnesses who saw the midair collision, the falling aircraft, and the monstrous explosion that produced a towering column of black smoke from miles away. Perry Flashman, Culver City Roger Smith, Waukesha, WI Frank Becwar, Fair Oaks The memory of that day is still vivid in the minds of many San Diegans and continues to affect them as well as many of the first responders who were on duty that day. 2727 Presidio Drive, San Diego, CA 92103. Boundary and Dwight Streets, North Park, 1966. The closest is a small plaque sitting in front of a memorial tree planted outside the North Park branch library. Sources: William McPeak (IMDb), Wikipedia, and IMDb. Gail Michele Forsyth, San Diego As she aged she easily transitioned into 'distinguished matron' and mother roles, one of her most unusual ones being the murderous Ma Barker in The Untouchables: Ma Barker and Her Boys (1959), a notoriously gun-blasting episode of the notorious gun-blasting series. She won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Key Largo (1948), and received nominations for her roles in Dead End (1937) and The High and the Mighty (1954). Arriving back at the train station in his hometown of London, Ontario, on October 27, 1909, after winning the World Series, Gibson found more than 7,000 cheering fans to greet him. Notes : This is indeed the PSA 182 aircraft involved in the mid-air collision with a Cessna 172 whilst on downwind for San Diego's runway 27 on September 25th - 1978. The numbered bags were loaded into one of four large refrigerated tractor-trailer trucks parked outside. Nellie Jackson, Sacramento Carol Cook, Rolling Hills There were no faces on the bodies. Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182 was midair when it collided with a Cessna 172 aircraft, which is a private plane. Leonard's. By that afternoon, they were calling the next of kin of all those confirmed dead.83 Of course our first concernis for the families of our regular passengers, PSA President William Shimp stated during a subsequent press interview, but we like to feel we [at PSA] are a family too, andfeel it as a family loss.84 PSA employees resolutely continued to schedule flights in and out of Lindbergh Field.85. Sign-up for our e-newsletter: Lower level of the San Diego History Center His games caught in a season record stood until 1920 when Ray Schalk caught 151 games. At the intersection of Dwight and Nile streets, where Flight 182 hit the ground, state and local officials participated in a remembrance ceremony at 9 a.m. for the 144 victims of the crash. All 152 passengers and crew aboard perished. The 110-ton jet liner hooked and flipped the 2,100-pound Cessna upside down into the airliner's right wing. Air Traffic Control alerted PSA 182 that there was a . Gil A. Marcoux, San Diego, RandolphMartin, Malibu Talked to a few folks who had lived there when it happened, said it was unimaginably horrific. In total, 144 people lost their lives in the disaster on that fateful day, includingtwo men in the Cessna, Flight 182's seven crew members (including. Here she is in better days, in the company's second c/s, with the first full black titles. During their initial investigation, investigators discovered pieces of the Cessna embedded in the jet airliners nose landing gear, which confirmed that the nose gear had struck the smaller aircraft before smashing into the starboard wing.82, Inside PSAs Lindbergh Field headquarters building, special financial assistant Don Simonian, along with other staff, responded to a stream of phone calls asking the status of friends or loved ones on board PSA 182. Gary Bruce Walker lost his 3-year-old son and his mother. They also interviewed neighbors to make an exact determination of those killed on the ground.80 Once identified, arrangements were made to send the remains to local or out-of-town funeral homes.81, National Transportation Safety Board [NTSB] and Boeing forensic investigators combed through the Boeing 727-214s recovered remains. Years later, another first responder, SDPD officer Bill Farrar, lamented, I drive by the crash location about once a year. After leaving the Berendrecht lock, the "Voge Dignity" (IMO 9420851) is seen here passing the PSA Noordzee Terminal as the tanker sails downstream the river Scheldt and out to the anchorage in front of the Belgian coast to wait for orders. Deborah McCarthy, Vista Captain McFeron plaintively muttered Easy baby, easy baby, with a hopeful Yeah (perhaps from Flight Officer Fox), as Fox struggled to control the increasingly unresponsive aircraft.44, Observers on the ground noted that the small Cessnas bifurcated tail section seemed to drop like a rag doll before landing near the intersection of Ohio Street and Polk Avenue.45 In the crumpled wreckage, police officers found Boswells mangled body still strapped to its seat.46 Kazys body traveled in the flaming nose section almost 10 blocks further east across the 805 Freeway before the section separated and crashed through a houses front porch north of Polk Avenue and 33rd Street.47, Inside the stricken PSA jet airliner, at 09:01:51, Captain McFeron asked about the extent of the damage to his aircraft. The right wing of N533PS was badly damaged when it struck the Cessna (N7711G) and crashed into a residential neighborhood with the loss of 144 lives (including 7 on the ground). The judge's ruling clears the way for a Nov. 5 trial on the Gibson stood 5'11.5" and weighed 190 pounds, which was considered large for a baseball player of his era. This photo demonstrates the full leading edge extension of the (PSA) Boeing 727. A Cessna plane collided in midair with Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182, a Boeing 727-214, over North Park, a neighborhood in San Diego. The resulting impact tore the Cessna in half, causing one of its internal fuel tanks to rupture and explode along the right wings leading edge.43, As the sound of the 175-180 mph impact and explosion reverberated throughout the jet airliners cockpit, Flight Engineer Wahne swore. Return to Dwight and Nile: The Crash of PSA Flight 182: Directed by David Fresina. Jeri Dickson, Los Angeles Photos of PSA crew on PSA Memorial Page . On Monday, September 25, 1978, San Diego was overcome by catastrophe. 02:21 - Source: CNN. It crashed into the Atlantic Ocean while in Irish airspace. Lynnette Cherry, Yakima Valley, WA Ruben Macias, Hawthorne Located in the heart of Balboa Park SAN DIEGO (NEWS 8) September 25, 1978 is a date imprinted in the memories of many San Diegans. Lindbergh Field is presently in its original location.98 Following a one-year investigation, the NTSB concluded that PSA 182s cabin crew was primarily responsible for the mid-air collision that led to the crash because they had not notified Lindbergh Control that they had lost visual contact with Cessna N7711G.99, Pressure from flight crew and airline pilot associations, however, compelled the NTSB to reopen the case.100 The Air Line Pilots Association, for example, pointed out a major flaw in the see-and-avoid approach. They argued that such an approach frequently produced erroneous identification by pilots of air traffic reported by controllers.101 Another critic, J. W. Olcott, proposed in the August 1979 issue of Business and Commercial Aviation that the PSA flight crew had a significant factor working against themthe subconscious belief that [Air Traffic Control] and the radar environmentwould protect them from the catastrophe of a midair collision.102, While it did not exonerate the PSA flight crew, an amended NTSB 1982 report cited other factors that contributed to the crash. PSA became known as "poor sailors airlines" because most of its initial passengers were San Diego servicemen on leave, flying to the Bay area for a weekend getaway on a $15.75 fare. Recovery of the aircraft and victims was made extremely difficult by the location of the crash. Roger W. Walsh, Solana Beach If an approaching vehicle gets too close, the system automatically engages the vehicles braking system, thereby avoiding a dangerous collision. PSA 182 . 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