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Title: Horrific scene of jetliner crash, San Diego
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Mullen, Mike
Date Created and/or Issued: 1978
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
A Cessna plane collided in midair with Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 18 over North Park, a neighborhood in San Diego. 144 people, including 7 on the ground, were killed in the crash.
Photograph caption dated September 26, 1978 reads, "Pieces of 727 jetliner mingle with bodies and charred homes in quiet San Diego neighborhood. Crash was worst in U.S. aviation history."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;24 x 33 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00094744
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b003_f2_i3
CARL0005039827
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/32386
Subject: Pacific Southwest Airlines
Aircraft accidents--California--San Diego
Aircraft accident victims--California--San Diego
Airplanes--California--San Diego
Boeing 727 (Jet transports)
Cessna aircraft
Debris--California--San Diego
Fire fighters--California--San Diego
Dwellings--California--San Diego
North Park (San Diego, Calif.)
San Diego (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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