PSA Flight 182 was the deadliest crash in US aviation history until the flight that left which Chicago airport a year later?
PSA Flight 182 Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) Flight 182 was a Boeing 727-214 commercial airliner, registration, N533PS that collided with a private Cessna 172 light aircraft, registration, N7711G over San Diego, California, at 9:01 am on Monday, September 25, 1978. It was Pacific Southwest Airlines' first accident involving fatalities. The death toll of 144 made it the deadliest aircraft disaster in California history. Until the crash of American Airlines Flight 191 eight months later, it was also the deadliest plane crash in U.S. aviation history.
Pan Am Flight 806 Pan Am Flight 806 was an international scheduled flight from Auckland, New Zealand, to Los Angeles, California, with intermediate stops at Pago Pago, American Samoa and Honolulu, Hawaii. On January 30, 1974, the Boeing 707 "Clipper Radiant" crashed on approach to Pago Pago International Airport, killing 87 passengers and ten crew members.