PSA 182 originated as an early Sacramento-to-Los Angeles flight, then continued from L.A. to San Diego. On that early fall morning, Santa Ana winds had blown away the usual marine layer.

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.

People who lost loved ones in the crash of PSA Flight 182 or witnessed the disaster 36 years ago are scheduled to gather Thursday morning where the Boeing 727 came down in North Park.

“Just the carnage, the smell, diesel fuel, burned flesh,” Smith said. A Cessna airplane and PSA Flight 182 collided mid-air as the jetliner approached San Diego International Airport.

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PSA Flight 182 collided with a Cessna in mid-air, killing all 135 passengers on the Boeing 727. Both people on the Cessna and seven people on the ground in the North Park neighborhood also died.

Bob Futz: September 25th, a PSA jet liner collides over San Diego with a single-engine Cessna; 144 people die in the worst air tragedy in U.S. history.

People who lost loved ones in the crash of PSA Flight 182 or witnessed the disaster 36 years ago are scheduled to gather Thursday morning where the Boeing 727 came down in North Park.

He says his sister was on PSA flight 182 traveling to San Diego for work. Shortly after 9 a.m., the jet airliner collided with a small private plane over North Park.

He snapped PSA 182 tilted at a sickening 50-degree angle, its right wing in flames. (This iconic photo appeared the next day on the front page of both the San Diego Union and the San Diego Evening ...