# Mid-air in San Diego? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 10, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mid-air-in-san-diego/343775 "2006-02-10T00:28:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mid-air-in-san-diego/343775/1 "2006-02-10T00:28:26Z")
I was just talking to my sister, who lives in San Diego. She said there had been a mid-air collision about 1400 about five miles from her house. Three people suffered fatal injuries. Do any of you San Diego Dopers have any more information? ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mid-air-in-san-diego/343775/2 "2006-02-10T00:36:04Z")
[Here ya go.](http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006/02/09/news/sandiego/17_44_422_8_06.txt) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mid-air-in-san-diego/343775/3 "2006-02-10T00:40:58Z")
> [@Rico](#): > > [Here ya go.](http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006/02/09/news/sandiego/17_44_422_8_06.txt) Thanks, **Rico**. My first hours were at Montgomery. I’ve never flown out of Gillespie. (Used to go to Flight Suits Ltd., and a friend got me into the Air & Space Museum Annex there so I could play in a MiG-17 and a Phantom.) Anyway, I’m not familiar with that area. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mid-air-in-san-diego/343775/4 "2006-02-10T08:27:52Z")
Bummer… ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mid-air-in-san-diego/343775/5 "2006-02-10T10:47:25Z")
Who else thought of [this crash](http://www.airdisaster.com/photos/psa182/photo.shtml) when reading the topic title? The reason I know about this one is interesting. When my then-girlfriend (better known as **Heloise** ) and I spend a few days in San Diego in 2002 (0r was it 2003?), she showed me around her old neighbourhood. After chatting with the current owner of her old house a bit, we drove off. 3 houses down, a huge vacant lot could be observed. “O, yeah!”, she said, “that’s where the plane crash took place. They never built on it again after that.” I asked her when the crash took place, and she said “I dunno, somewhere in the 80’s, I think. Years before I moved to SD, anyway”. She wasn’t sure whether it was a small or a big plane, either. So, when we got home, I decided to research it. It’s kind of weird, finding out that what really happened on that street in 1978 was the single biggest airplane crash on US soil pre-9/11. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mid-air-in-san-diego/343775/6 "2006-02-10T17:32:00Z")
I remember that one. And the crash in Cerritos. I haven’t seen anything on the news about the latest crash. Of course I’m over 1,300 miles away, so it’s not exactly a local story. ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mid-air-in-san-diego/343775/7 "2006-02-10T19:01:47Z")
Here’s the latest on the [crash](http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20060210-9999-7m10crash.html) . I remember the 1978 PSA crash too. I worked near the County Medical Examiner’s office and they had to rent about 5 refrigerated tractor trailers to store all the bodies. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mid-air-in-san-diego/343775/8 "2006-02-10T19:11:21Z")
What a dramatic, horrible photo. I can’t tell if it’s the C172RG with the gear extended, or the Skylane. Probably the latter.