At the time of FaAA 's founding , Ross was also an engineering program manager at SRI International ( then the Stanford Research Institute ) ( 1965 – 1970 ) . While en route to the site of a Navy jet crash investigation , Tetelman was killed on September 25 , 1978 , in the PSA Flight 182 air crash over San Diego between a PSA jet liner and a private Cessna airplane that claimed the lives of 144 people . He was forty-two years old
PSA Flight 182
PSA Flight 182
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