| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | December 07, 1987 |
| Time: | 1616 |
| Location: | San Luis Obispo, California |
| Operator: | Pacific Southwest Airlines |
| Flight #: | 1771 |
| Route: | Los Angeles - San Fransisco |
| AC Type: | British Aerospace BAe-146-200A |
| Registration: | N350PS |
| cn / ln: | E-2027 |
| Aboard: | 43 (passengers:38 crew:5) |
| Fatalities: | 43 (passengers:38 crew:5) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | A fired USAir employee, David Burke, after leaving a goodbye message to friends, shot both pilots with a .44 Magnum pistol. While the aircraft was cruising at 22,000 feet over the central California coast, the cockpit crew heard two shots in the passenger cabin and radioed a frantic message to air traffic controllers: "There’s gunfire aboard." Moments later, the plane entered a high-speed nosedive and smashed onto the ground at 700 mph at 5,000 g's . Investigators sifting through the wreckage were able to retrieve the plane’s cockpit voice recorder, which subsequently revealed the sounds of a commotion in the cockpit, three more shots, the groan of the pilot or co-pilot, and then a final shot. |
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