144 Dead on a Cloudless Day — The Mid-Air Collision Nobody Saw Coming — PSA Flight 182

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On September 25, 1978, PSA Flight 182 — a Boeing 727 carrying 135 people — collided mid-air with a tiny Cessna 172 on a cloudless morning over San Diego. All 144 people died, including seven on the ground. Two of them were children.

The crew of PSA Flight 182 had reported the Cessna in sight. Air traffic control heard those three words and stopped providing radar separation. But somewhere in the final minutes of the approach, the crew lost visual contact with the small plane — and never told anyone. A conflict alert flashed on the controller's screen nineteen seconds before impact. He looked at it and did nothing — the system had been crying wolf thirteen times a day since it was installed a month earlier. The Cessna, meanwhile, had silently changed heading without informing ATC, placing itself directly in the 727's path with zero relative motion to betray its position. The PSA Flight 182 crash sent the burning airliner into a residential neighborhood, destroying twenty-two homes. The PSA Flight 182 disaster exposed a fatal flaw in the "see and avoid" system that had governed collision avoidance for decades. The PSA Flight 182 investigation would ultimately lead to one of the most important safety technologies in aviation history.

What were the crew's final words — and why did every safeguard fail on a day with perfect visibility?

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