Psa Flight 182 Failure

The PSA 182 flight crash was one of the top ten worst plane crashes in North American history. The incident occurred on September 25, 1978, when the flight 182 lifted off into the air from Los Angeles to it’s destination to Lindberg Field in San Diego. Just a minute later, another plane called a Cessna 172 lifted off the ground from Montgomery Field in Kearney Mesa, within minutes the Cessna and Flight 182 were flying in the same trajectory and the tower warning Flight 182 that the Cessna was one the same course as theirs. However the pilot was confused from the message, and having not seen the Cessna until it was too late, the Cessna collied with Flight 182, damaging the left wing and killing everyone on the Cessna, killing the pilots and falling to the ground, leaving Flight 182 falling from the sky. The pilots tried to gain control over the plane, but ultimately failed and crashed into the Dwight and Nile streets in a nearby neighborhood in San Diego, at the speed of 300 miles per hour, killing everyone on

Today, we have better forms of communication and technology, including a collision alarm system, “The collision alarm system not only warns both planes anytime a conflict over air space arises, pilots are given specific instructions to move them out of danger”(Johnson).This definitely helped improve where both the planes are and how to avoid a collision from happening. But on occasion collisions happen from poor maintenance and or pilot’s error, the PSA crash was still one of the worst plane crash in U.S. history, even when it was forty years ago. Though the PSA crash happened due to lack of information and understanding that infromation and taking action, it proved that the airlines need to make careful assumptions of where they are and what other planes are flying around in there direction, and how they can avoid the other