Deadly Collision over Los Angeles | Falling Apart Over California (With Real Audio) 

"This is it baby" are the last words of someone whose lived a full life and died doing what they love. When my time comes i hope I embrace it like him. RIP

"This is it Baby", haunting last words.

How in the blazes was that military jet even let off the ground??? RIP the pilot and the passengrs and crew of flight 706.

That F-4 sounds like it shouldn't have been headed anywhere except the scrap yard...bad radio, bad radar, oxygen system failure, bad transponder, ejector fault...simply not airworthy...

On the stricken PSA 182 jet, the other pilot actually said: "Ma, I love you" a second before impact. God RIP all these Souls !

I lived on Dwight Street back then, about 1,000 feet east of PSA 182's impact spot. It was a scaldingly hot day, around 90-95F (which is not unheard of for late September in California). My mom initially thought a tanker had overturned and exploded on the 805 freeway just next to us.

As a former Airman and airport employee, it always brings a tear to my eye, but I want to thank this channel for doing such a professional job with these videos and honoring and remembering 🕯the casualties. Thank you.

I’m a flight attendant and always say a prayer in my mind before every flight

This video is so sad rip to all who perished great video as always tfc

Can I just say this is my fav channel on RU-vid, just awesome thanks a million for the hard work you put into this channel . As for this particular vid taken this F4 into the air would be like knowingly going to work in my car with no brakes or brake lights

I actually witnessed this one as an 8-year old. I was in a park with friends on a clear day and heard the crash. I initially thought it was thunder until a person I was with looked up and pointed. I saw two burning aircraft circling slowly towards the ground. They were making wide circles and didn't reach the ground for several minutes. I never did see a parachute, since I was watching the planes. Shortly afterwards, hundreds of people were on the street watching. The scary part was no one knew where the planes would actually hit the ground. Being a suburb of LA, this could have been much worse of course. Thankfully, both planes ended up crashing about a mile north of us behind the San Gabriel mountains, followed by two plumes of smoke. They used the park I was in as a staging area over the next few weeks, bringing the debris back and shipping it away in trucks. Not that there was anything humorous about the crash, but I remember when the pilot left the hospital, he was insistent the the other plane hit him and not the other way around, much with the same pettiness as a backing accident in a parking lot. Seemed childish, even to me.

Excellent video done by FlightChannel! And I was so pleased to see the majestic music back in the beginning, middle and at the end. It adds to the wonderful work that FlightChannel does. Please keep that up.

Reminds me of the tragedy of Aeromexico flight 498 and that private plane who collided over Cerritos, CA. One poor woman on the ground, lost almost her entire family, except for one son. I believe she had three children and a husband. And, in an instant, she wound up with just herself and one son. Horrible. Also, on board, Aeromexico, a DR and his two boys receded. They had been on a fishing trip off the Mexican coast and caught a big fish that they were so proud of and planter hanging in the kitchen of their home in Los Angeles. They never made it. May the victims of that crash and this one rest in peace. That fighter jet should have been scrapped.

"This is it, baby!" man went down w/ swagger. respect.

I love this channel. Never change it!

Everyone here in San Diego still remembers this crash VERY well. PSA Airlines didn't last long after this. There had been another PSA incident of a pilot who intentionally crashed their PSA flight on its way from LAX to SFO. Too bad, as a college student in San Diego, I flew PSA alot then and always loved that airline and their crew=much better than United or American and DEFINITELY better than Air West which we called Air Worst!

Its staggering how to aircraft can meet at the exact same location at the same time like that.

Very sad, I don't remember the Hughes crash but I remember the PSA crash when I was a kid.

A UPS van has less stops than that plane

It's horrible imagining what the co-pilot was feeling either watching his pilot die in the crash or wondering if he survived. My heart hurts for these people.

Of course its not easy to spot a fast moving jet since you can only have limited visual on your windscreen, especially the blind spots. Also when the jet color can be camouflaged with either the sky or the terrain below

A few of us oldies may remember the movie... The Crowded Sky, 1960. It's a good one to watch even in this year. All the area in the sky.... & 2 planes happen to meet at one place, just amazing ✈🛩

I can't even imagine the survivor's guilt that the RIO (Radar Intercept Officer) had

I don't recall the 1971 crash which was a few days before high school graduation in San Diego. I do recall the PSA crash and the plane falling into North Park. That was a sad day for San Diego and PSA. The practice of training GA using Lindberg was a bad idea and was realized after this event. Lindberg was never an easy airport to land at and I had made many a trip between SAN and SFO. I much prefer the easy over the shallow bay approach to SFO.

I'm not a pilot. Was the fighter jet pilot trying to roll to avoid the collision the correct response? I would think diving would be a better idea. Rolling would make you higher by putting your wing up in front of the approaching plane

Seems incredible that with all the airspace around two planes can occupy the same piece. It’s needle in a haystack times a million.

Great video! You will have a wealth of material for future videos! As it currently stands there have been, at least, 47 near misses in the US this year, and one actual collision recently that thankfully ended in no loss of life.

"See and avoid " @ 580 mph ?!? Yeah. Good luck with that.

It was a real mess when the airliner hit that neighborhood, the whole area was covered in body parts, they had to bring in extra support personnel to help the rescue crews deal with all the carnage.

What a shame. You just never know what the day will bring.

When that P S. A airliner hit that Cessna I was living in Ontario California at that time. It hit the news big time. My mom said now you see why I don’t like to fly . I like to fly, but I want to feel safe. With everything going on with the airlines I just don’t feel safe anymore so I don’t fly anymore. Keep my feet on the ground and my head above water. Lots of laughs, but not for the poor people who have died, I’m sorry I wish they could in all of this tragedy. Thanks for the video. Have a great day. It’s always a constant reminder to me as to who it can happen.😖😡🤷‍♂️🛩️

RIP poor victims. Really sad, not to mention the last words.

I remember learning to fly a small Robin in my teens.. fortunately, it was a very small airport with only similar planes. I would have been terrified to learn in a high trafficked airport with huge jets all around.

I'm surprised they let the F-4 even take off after having radar, transponder and 02 issues that weren't fixed. I worked avionics in the USAF (B shop) and I assume back then ECS would've worked the oxygen issue while A shopped C shop would've done the radar and transponder. Send an MRT if they don't have the personnel at the TDY location. Flying VFR from Fallon to El Toro in a fighter seems a little wacky to me. Forget mid-air collision; just flying VFR into IMC usually equals CFIT!!

I was heading south from college 30 miles north of San Diego that day, and saw that ugly black column of smoke. It was an incredibly clear day... When you're flying over cities, anything you're looking for below the horizon has a background of "visual clutter" (buildings, cars, trees, etc), making it hard to see. Worse, it appears that the relative position of the small plane, as seen from the airliner was static, not moving up, down, or sideways, but straight at them. Because of that, and because of all the white buildings below, a small white plane would appear to the crew to be motionless, just another white object on the ground,, until it was too late.

This is it baby! Man, accepting fate like a bad ass! RIP.

I like that specific sound before the beginning of the video ❤

The path of airlines going to Lindbergh Field/San Diego making the route from the north or west, via the coast, is now a few miles north coming in and the turnaround point about 10 miles East of its location at the time of the crash, creating a much longer line for aircraft to properly slot in place making it much less likely for this type of accident to happen again fortunately.

So what does it take to get a Marine plane grounded? I'm guessing if it burst into flames they would order the fire fighters to stand down so the pilot could get in and take off.

Also PSA 182 Collied over San Diego not Los Angeles... Also Also the plane was a B727 not a DC-9 as mentioned in the description

RIP To the passengers and crew of Hughes Airwest Flight 706 and James R. Phillips (1943-1971)

Again best channel upload video

About 1982 I took a College Psychology class: One of my classmates was a police officer who had responded to the crash site in San Diago. He talked about the emotional distress it caused him.

Two weeks before the PSA collision there was coincidentally an episode of the TV show 'Emergency!' portraying a very similar collision over Los Angeles.

I used to play El Toro golf course on the El Toro Marine Base, there were a couple of holes that were really close to the runway, saw many fighter jets takeoff and land while playing golf.

I think the "maintain visual separation" thing is bs. It's ATC's job to make sure planes don't collide. They should have been yelling at that Cessna to get the hell out of the way.

15,500 feet with no transponder. That’s cute.

Knowiing you're about to die but being unable to do anything about it - I think that is the worst. Here, I think of the first Phantom-F4 pilot who pressed his eject button only to see it wouldn't work... and then the captain of PS182 clearly articulating "This is it..."

May all the victims of the two collisions rest in peace 🙏

What terrible tragedies. I was too young to recall the Hughes Air West mishap but by 1978 was in 9th grade, and at Christian High School in El Cajon that day - hot as a pistol, late September, and observered a huge black plume of smoke in San Diego, about 20 miles west. I knew a disaster had occurred & begged our World History teacher to switch on the TV to see what happened. Instantly the whole class was confronted with raw images of the worst air crash on US soil happening to our very own San Diego. Needless to say, we watched on horror & our teacher Greg Webster led prayers for all the victims, some of whom would undoubtedly have family or friend connections to us. The impact zone near Nile & Boundary Streets / Adams Ave was just 4 blocks from our home. The suddenness of death & disaster was made real to my impressionable mind that day. Many funerals & crazy backstories of victims & near misses dominated San Diego for the ensuing year. God used this tragedy mightily - I had a Spiritual renewal of my faith in Christ then, and have held fast to Jesus as LORD since. We never ever can presume upon tomorrow. We are NOT in control - God Alone is - and we must walk by Faith, not by mere sight. RIP to all these victims - of both the PSA & Air West tragedies, in Jesus mighty name !

I think today tiny prop planes are supposed to keep clear of commercial airspace.

My great aunts told me how years ago when Flight 182 crashed they weren't sure what had happened but were worried it happened close to where my mom (who was 2 years old at the time) and grandma were living at. While driving by North Park they saw a bunch of debris but at one point saw a big piece of mass on the hood of a car. When they headed back afterwards of checking on family they said there was a blue tarp covering it. Must of been a super eerie experience.

I was in San Diego that day, didn't see it but it was all over the news.

Sad subject matter but very well done videos of both accidents.

Totally avoidable. RIP

Reupload again ???

Hundreds of people seen PSA182 go down, the fear inside for those 18 or so seconds is unimaginable.

Can’t imagine the thoughts of pilots when they know they are going to die.

Isn’t this a reupload? Feel like I’ve seen this one before on the channel

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14:03 Well, isn’t this some stupid shit…

Every RW employee remembers 706 like it was yesterday. Almost had a friend or two get on it in LAX.........sad day

I think you made an error in the description when you said that PSA 182 is a DC-9, as it was actually a 727

Can you do a video on the accident with flight TAM 402 from 1996 involving a Fokker 100 aircraft in Sao Paulo, BR?

Great video overall! I always look forward and enjoy your content. Though I do think you could have mentioned why PSA 182 did see the Cessna. The reason was because of design of 727. I think this would have been good to mention. You could’ve told us why.

Great video as always!! FYI - typo (“nstruction”) at 9:12

I quit flying in 2009 and it has been easy to stay on the wagon….that’s when they started finding cracks on the airliners…

As strong and tough as commercial airlines are built, it sometimes seems astounding as to the ease of the their destruction.

Love this channel, hate the 🤡 who comments that they were somehow involved in some way in almost every incident. Is there no way to block this person?

Oh, Linberg Airfield, Cessna, Microsoft Flight Simulator personal experience, many many times

Hmmm kind of an abrupt ending. But good video. You keep chuggin' them out!

If you check history you will find a lot more airline/general aviation midairs. The TCA was first introduced on June 25, 1970. Prior to the TCA the airport traffic area only extended 5 statute around the airport and only below two thousand feet. Few if any light airplanes had transponders. I recall flying SW from HPN, flying over the top of LGA and JFK at 2500’ talking to both towers with the single radio the airplane had with no requirement to call them. I flew into LGA as a student pilot at age 16 because I was turning 17 the next day and taking my Private check ride in New Jersey the next morning and my New York Junior Driver license was not valid in Nassau County or New York City so I could not drive to HPN to get the Cessna 150 I was going to use. When I was finishing tying down the airplane at the Marine Air Terminal a station wagon from Butler the FBO arrived. The driver asked where is the pilot. I said I am. He just mumbled from that point on. I took the bus into Jackson Heights for the night. I also see that prior to Dec. 16, 1965 there was no requirement to have a type rating to fly a heavy airplane unless it was passengers or freight for hire. It was not until March 31, 1966 that it became a requirement to have a Type Rating in the Lear 23 which was under 12,500 pounds. Altitude Alert, TCAS, GPS, INS, Strobe Lights, changes in rules. I was told when the airlines first had the jets they would climb past 400’, retract the flaps, and accelerate to 300 Kts+.

And there were still other mid airs over the LA area (Aero Mexico being one). What a horrible place to fly (or live apparently).

Am I the only one who thinks it is a reupload.

Haven’t you covered these two incidents before?

1971. F-15s weren't in service yet.

With the first collision, I don't understand why the Marines would allow a plane in that condition to fly. They don't have the parts to repair? Send for the parts!!! Sheesh! RIP the 50 souls lost. With the second collision, I think the captain, the atc and the small plane all share in that tragedy! RIP 144 souls lost in air and on the ground.

Air traffic controllers are not allowed to assume. They are supposed to control, and should have done so. Nothing in the transcript indicates that the PSA B727 crew had positively sighted and could remain clear of the (French registered?) Cessna. Radar separation could have and should have been provided. I have 25 years experience as a terminal area controller in Sydney, and you do not let the crew of a jet who are very busy during final approach separate themselves from such a small target. Phraseology on the parts of both pilots and ATC was lax and non-standard, which does not help.

This channel constantly reminds me why I don’t fly

atc error

Huge Air Crash had a flight take off at 6:02 to SLC that would make 3 other stops THEN go to Seattle? WTF?

All that technology and skill available and then they tell two planes they can fly however they want as long as they see each other over the airspace of a major regional airport wow.

well this is too much I'm just sitting here scrolling through RU-vid listening to old time radio shows they are playing a show about the Ontario crash and this comes up

Kind of funny that the person whose job it was to control the weapons systems in that F4 Phantom had a last name which means "shoot" in German.

That is horrible..."well have emergency crews standing by..nah, this it baby" if i was ATC id have thrown up

Looking at a thumbnail of the video I thought the F4 was a space shuttle... and was very confused why I never heard of a space shuttle colliding with another plane!

Boy this whole flight was a cluster @#$*!!!!!

Why would you roll the aircraft instead of pushing the stick down hard? I don't get it.

Small problem with your graphics of the ramp at Mountain Home. You show twin-tailed fighters that look like F15s, this accident happened in June of 1971, 1st flight of the F15 was July 27, 1972, they entered service in 1976, no way they were on the ramp at Mountain Home in 1971.

Did they not have Radar for the PSA and Cessna back then... totally ATC fault, probably also didn't have Class B airspace too cause that Cessna was asking for it.....

so the cessna takes off from a small airport and heads over to Lindberg with jet traffic to practice ILS approaches? wth?

I'm no expert so forgive my statement/question. Student is practicing IFR but no flight plan because the flight is to be conducted under VFR?

Can you make a video about the disaster of Piacenza, Italy?

wonder how that felt like @7:16 knowing you are going to die in minutes

Uh… F-15s in 1971??

None of this had to happen. Tragedies such as this one lead one to question if this was preordained. They tested fate and it obliged with an answer. To think that with all the space up there, these 2 planes had to collide with each other. The NTSB placing blame on the crew is reprehensible. The Phantom should never have been allowed to leave the ground with so many failures in its system.

RIP to everyone. Would be cool if you did Itavia 870 or the Turin Frecce Tricolori accident

Hardly all that airworthy, considering it was a military jet too!

Hi sadh

"This is it, baby!