Clark has more than 45 years of flight experience , 36 years as a solo aerobatic air show pilot , and 30,000 accident-free hours to her name . She flies an average of 20 air shows a year in her Beechcraft T-34 Mentor , currently sponsored by Juice Plus , and is rated in more than 66 types of aircraft . She is an enshrined member of the Living Legends of Aviation . Clark 's father , Captain Ernest Clark , was also an airline pilot . He was murdered in 1964 by a suicidal passenger on Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 . All crew and passengers were killed as a result of the passenger shooting both pilots , then himself , causing the plane to crash . Her mother 's death just a year earlier , and her father 's subsequent death , increased her determination to fly
Pacific Air Lines Flight 773
Pacific Air Lines Flight 773
Julie Clark