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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.
He told a San Diego audience near NAA facilities, "I endorse wholeheartedly the B-70 manned aircraft." [50] Kennedy also made similar campaign claims regarding other aircraft: near the Seattle Boeing plant he affirmed the need for B-52s and in Fort Worth he praised the B-58. [51] XB-70A parked at Edwards Air Force Base in 1967
The plane crashed in Mississippi, on a field in Lake Shady (today Lake Serene) about 2 mi (3 km) south of U.S. Route 98, leaving a crater 30 ft (10 m) deep and 75 ft (20 m) wide. After the crash, between 30 and 40 Air Force personnel were sent to investigate. They set up a temporary headquarters in the Oak Grove School auditorium.
Maddux Airlines Ford 5-AT-B Trimotor / US Army Air Corps Boeing PW-9D) 2,000 ft (610 m) United States San Diego, California May 18, 1935: 45: 0 Tupolev ANT-20 Maxim Gorky VVS Polikarpov I-5: Cruise Russian SFSR, Soviet Union Moscow: August 24, 1938: 5 + 80 ground fatalities
The Convair B-36 "Peacemaker" [N 1] is a strategic bomber built by Convair and operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) from 1949 to 1959. The B-36 is the largest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft ever built, although it was exceeded in span and weight by the one-off Hughes H-4 Hercules.
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SAN DIEGO, July 31 – A Navy fighter plane carried its pilot to flaming death in a crash near Mt. Palomar today. The Corsair fighter was on a flight from the San Diego naval air station. It exploded as it struck and the flames spread in dry grass, burning over about an acre in the dry hills, about 50 miles north of here.