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1978 San Diego mid air collision, a Cessna 172 Skyhawk N7711G and a PSA 727-214 N533PS collided over San Diego on September 25 1978 killing over 135 passengers on the 727 and 2 on the Cessna, 7 were killed on ground making it 144 deaths. and injuring 9 on ground. 727 crashed at 9:02:04.5 PST
The San Jose Fire Department HazMat team has been certified as a Type I resource, the highest level of HazMat capability. • Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting: The department provides airplane crash fire suppression and rescue services by a specially equipped and trained crew based at the Norman Mineta San Jose International Airport.
The board also voted against funding an expansion of San Martin Airport, raising concerns that general aviation traffic would be diverted to San Jose International Airport, which is also capacity-constrained and surrounded by urban development, [15] [16] including the low-income, minority Washington-Guadalupe and Alviso neighborhoods.
Air Canada is simplifying its SFO approach charts and includes SFO-specific training in aircraft simulators, trains its staff to reduce expectation bias, and will retrofit new aircraft like the Airbus A220 and Boeing 737 MAX with dual head-up displays to enhance situational awareness in low-visibility, high-risk approaches.
The collision between a passenger flight and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., on Jan. 29 marks the first fatal disaster involving a U.S. commercial airliner in 16 years.
The crash of Flight 182 was preceded by a near-tragedy almost ten years earlier (also involving Pacific Southwest Airlines), when, on January 15, 1969, a PSA Boeing 727-214 (#N973PS) had collided with Cessna 182L (#N42242) on-ascent from San Francisco International Airport, bound for Ontario International Airport.
3 people refused entry to plane. Brazil's UOL news channel reported at least three passengers were refused entry to the plane before it took off from the city of Cascavel in the state of Parana ...
San Jose Must Have An Airport – 1929. In 1939, Ernie Renzel, a wholesale grocer and future mayor of San Jose, led a group that negotiated an option to buy 483 acres (195 ha) of the Stockton Ranch from the Crocker family, to be the site of San Jose's airport. Renzel led the effort to pass a bond measure to pay for the land in 1940.