Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lindbergh to PSA: "Traffic 12 o'clock one mile. A Cessna...
...Miramar to Cessna: "Traffic in your vicinity is a PSA jet. Has you in sight. He is descending toward Lindbergh...
...Miramar to Cessna: "Traffic 6 o'clock [directly to rear of Cessna] two miles eastbound. PSA jet inbound to Lindbergh out of 3200. Has you in sight...
What had gone wrong? Unless contrary evidence is found, it appears that the pilots in both planes failed to see each other, despite the puzzling PSA report about "traffic in sight." Investigators have not dismissed the possibility that the 727 sighted a plane other than the one it struck, although a second Cessna some twelve miles away at the time should not have confused the PSA pilots. There were other hazards. Both crews were facing a glaring sun. Worse, each craft appeared to have entered a blind spot in the other's field of vision. The 727 crew, with...
...standards that there were 4,968 accidents in general aviation service in 1968 (when there were 124,000 planes in use) and only 4,286 accidents in 1977 (when there were 185,000 such aircraft). The decrease in the number of fatalities for each mile flown in such private traffic is also impressive: fatal accidents averaged .204 per 100,000 hrs. flown in 1967 and only .076 per 100,000 hrs. last year. Private pilots argue, quite accurately, that more Americans die each year in boating and swimming accidents than in light aircraft mishaps...