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	PSA Flight 1771 -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		PSA Flight 1771 was a (Click link for more info and facts about Pacific Southwest Airlines) Pacific Southwest Airlines commercial flight that crashed in (A state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes) California on December 7, 1987.
		A female, presumed to be a (An attendant on an airplane) flight attendant, told the cockpit crew that "we have a problem." The Captain replied with "what kind of problem?" Burke then appeared at the cockpit door and announced "I'm the problem," simultaneously firing two more shots that probably killed the pilots.
		Strict federal laws were passed after the crash, including a law that required "immediate seizure of all airline employee credentials" upon termination from an airline position, and another policy was put into place where all members of any airline flight crew, including the Captain, be subjected to the same security measures as are the passengers.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/ps/psa_flight_17712.htm (541 words)

	Pacific Southwest Airlines biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		PSA expanded its service to Sacramento, San Jose, Long Beach, and Ontario during this period, and by 1980 was operating a hub at Los Angeles International Airport as well.
		PSA used a new fleet of BAe 146 regional jets to serve smaller airports on the West Coast, such as Eureka, California and Concord, California.
		The PSA route network slowly disintegrated within USAir and was completely gone by 1994: most of the former airline's assets were scrapped or moved to USAir's hubs on the East Coast.
	pacific-southwest-airlines.biography.ms (516 words)

	PSA Flight 1771 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		David Burke was an employee of USAir, the airline that had recently purchased and was in the process of absorbing Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA).
		However, Burke had been terminated by USAir for petty theft and, after meeting with his supervisor in an unsuccessful attempt to be reinstated, he purchased a ticket on Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771, a daily flight from Los Angeles, California to San Francisco.
		A female, presumed to be a flight attendant, told the cockpit crew that "we have a problem." The captain replied, "What kind of problem?" Burke then appeared at the cockpit door and announced "I'm the problem," simultaneously firing three more shots that probably killed the pilots.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/PSA_Flight_1771 (576 words)

	PSA Flight 1771 - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation PSA Flight 1771 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		PSA Flight 1771 - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation PSA Flight 1771.
		Here you will find more informations about PSA Flight 1771.
		The orginal PSA Flight 1771 article can be editet
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/PSA-Flight-1771.html (525 words)

	PSA Flight 1771 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 was a commercial flight that crashed in San Luis Obispo County, California, on December 7, 1987.
		Burke's supervisor, Raymond F. Thomson, took the flight regularly since Thomson lived in San Francisco but worked at Los Angeles International Airport.
		"Gun-toting fired employee linked to PSA plane crash; ex-boss was also on flight," Los Angeles Times, December 8, 1987
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pacific_Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1771 (576 words)

	Airline Responsibility for the World Trade Center Deaths
		That was after a deranged PSA employee smuggled a gun onto the plane, shot the crew and put the plane into a power dive that killed 42.
		In the PSA crash, I represented two families for the death of a father and a mother who were murdered on this flight.
		After the Paso Robles flight was destroyed by a solitary handgun, no American air carrier increased its security, other than to ask meaningless questions everyone has been asked for years about who packed your bags and have they remained in your possession.
	consumerlawpage.com /article/world_trade_center.shtml (1454 words)

	AirDisaster.Com: Special Report: PSA Flight 1771
		This flight was also taken by Burke's supervisor, Raymond Thompson, every day on his commute home from the USAir Headquarters at LAX.
		A female, presumed to be a Flight Attendant, advises the cockpit crew that “we have a problem.” The Captain replies with “what kind of problem?” Burke then appears at the cockpit door and announces “I'm the problem,” simultaneously firing two more shots that fatally injure both pilots.
		All 44 passengers and crew aboard PSA Flight 1771 died as the aircraft crashed into a Farmer's field in the Santa Ana Hills.
	www.airdisaster.com /special/special-pa1771.shtml (699 words)

	PSA Airlines - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation PSA Airlines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		PSA Airlines - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation PSA Airlines.
		PSA Airlines is a regional airline based in Dayton, Ohio that flies under US Airways Express for US Airways.
		It was known as Jetstream before US Airways renamed it to protect the trademark of Pacific Southwest Airlines, which was once a large carrier on the West Coast.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/PSA-Airlines.html (123 words)

	Encyclopedia: Automobile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1771 he again designed another steam-driven engine which ran so fast that it rammed into a wall, producing the worldâs first car accident.
		The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the Mauve Decade, because William Henry Perkins aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion, and also as the Gay Nineties, under the then-current usage of the word gay which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no...
		Jump to: navigation, search 1771 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Automobile (9842 words)

	A Pacific Southwest Airlines British Aerospace Goes Down After Gun Shoots Ring Throughout The Cockpit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A recently discharged USAIR employee boarded PSA flight 1771 after having left a goodbye message with friends.
		Within 25 seconds, Oakland control tower controllers observed that PSA 1771 had begun a rapid descent from which it did not recover.
		Witnesses on the ground said the airplane was intact and there was no evidence of fire before the airplane struck the ground in a steep nose-down attitude.
	avstop.com /news/ps.html (197 words)

	Armed Females of America Document
		A Flight Attendant advised the captain that “we have a problem.” The Captain asked “what kind of problem?” Former US Airways employee David Burke appeared at the cockpit door and replies “I’m the problem”, then immediately fired two shots that fatally injured both pilots.
		This murder/suicide by a deranged person created passage of a new federal regulation requiring all flight crewmembers, including the Captain, to be subjected to the same security screening as the passengers.
		However, in an in flight situation where control of the flight deck is the goal of a terrorist the use of deadly force is the only suitable option available and must be made by the persons ultimately responsible for the safe operation of the aircraft.
	www.armedfemalesofamerica.com /urgent.htm (1455 words)

	FLIGHT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Search the FLIGHT Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
		Search the FLIGHT Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
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	www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/F/FLIGHT.htm (73 words)

	1980s: Notable California Aviation Disasters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Shortly after departing the San Luis Obispo County Airport on a commuter flight to San Francisco International Airport, a Wings West Airlines twin-engine Beechcraft C99 (N6399U) collided head-on with a private Rockwell Commander 112TC aircraft (N112SM) that was descending for a landing at the same airport.
		At the same time, Aeromexico Flight 498, a Douglas DC-9-32 jetliner (XA-JED), was inbound to Los Angeles International Airport on a flight from Mexico City, with intermediate stops at Guadalajara, Loreto and Tijuana, carrying 58 passengers and a crew of six.
		The PSA Flight 1771 disaster also led to legislation requiring that all airline employees and flight crews pass through the same security checkpoints and metal detection systems that passengers do.
	members.aol.com /jaydeebee1/crash80s.html (1555 words)

	Prior Knowledge of Terrorism
		An airplane carrying the governor of Tennessee to Ronald Reagan's funeral in Washington DC came uncomfortably close to an serious encounter with a fighter aircraft.
		The twin-engine business aircraft had a waiver to operate that flight into the airport, but had an inoperative transponder - then ATC omitted manual tracking tags from radar images fed to to the NRCC control center.
		Fortunately the fighter could not find the aircraft because of clouds, and the alert was reduced when the aircraft's flight path progressed to the point where it was recognized as beginning an approach to DCA airport rather than heading toward the capital area.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/sketchley_keith_h/prior.htm (6492 words)

	Hughes Airwest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		KTVU TV, Ch 2 in OAK ran this story recently on the tragic incident that occurred on May 7, 1964 when Capt. Ernie Clark and Co-Pilot Ray Andress were shot at the controls of PC flight 773 hurling the F-27 into the ground near San Ramon, Ca.
		All 41 passengers as well as the three crew members were killed instantly including the deranged gunman who had purchased $100,000 of insurance from a vending machine just before departure from Reno.
		This segment on PC 771 was one of three airline segments featured on one of KTVU TV's weekly series entitled "A SECOND LOOK." the second segment is about the death of PSA Flight 1771 some 23 years later once again at the hands of another crazed gunman.
	www.hughesairwest.com (526 words)

	Security Management: Disgruntled employees - ticking time bombs? (includes related article)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		IN DECEMBER 1987, DAVID A BURKE, a former USAir employee, boarded Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) flight 1771 departing Los Angeles for San Francisco with the intention of killing PSA executive Raymond Thompson.
		Burke believed Thompson was responsible for his firing from USAir, the parent company of PSA.
		While the plane was cruising above San Luis Obispo County, CA, Burke shot Thompson and the plane's pilot and copilot, causing the plane to crash.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:11837737&refid=ink_tptd_mag (204 words)

	Dangerous Logic: Web Serendipity In Action, or "From Travel News To The Wacky World Of Murder In Three Easy ...
		I'm fascinated by air travel in general (don't ask), and by the history of air travel in particular, so I checked some of them out.
		The most interesting one I saw was a memorial to Pacific Southwest Airlines, and was pretty well done, right up to this cryptic comment on the last page: "The Webmaster honors the memory of the 42 victims of the crime committed aboard PSA flight 1771 on December 7, 1987." Naturally, my curiosity was piqued.
		All I can say is that I'm glad flight crews pass through security checkpoints now.
	www.dangerouslogic.com /archive/000277.html (284 words)

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