Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771

Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771

N350PS, the aircraft involved, at Los Angeles International Airport in 1986
Hijacking
Date	December 7, 1987
Summary	Mass murder–suicide, aircraft hijacking
Site	San Luis Obispo County, near Cayucos, California, U.S. 35°31′20″N 120°51′25″W / 35.52222°N 120.85694°W / 35.52222; -120.85694
Aircraft
Aircraft type	British Aerospace 146-200A
Aircraft name	The Smile of Stockton
Operator	Pacific Southwest Airlines
IATA flight No.	PS1771
ICAO flight No.	PSA1771
Call sign	PSA 1771
Registration	N350PS[1]
Flight origin	Los Angeles International Airport, California, U.S.
Destination	San Francisco International Airport, California, U.S.
Occupants	43[2]
Passengers	38
Crew	5
Fatalities	43 (including the perpetrator)
Survivors	0

Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 was a scheduled flight along the West Coast of the United States, from Los Angeles, California, to San Francisco. On December 7, 1987, the British Aerospace 146-200A, registration N350PS, crashed in San Luis Obispo County near Cayucos,^[3][4] after being hijacked by a passenger.

All 43 passengers and crew aboard the plane died, five of whom, including the two pilots, were presumably shot dead before the plane crashed. The perpetrator, David Burke, was a disgruntled former employee of USAir, the parent company of Pacific Southwest Airlines.^[5] The crash was the second-worst mass murder in Californian history, after the similar crash of Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 in 1964. It is the second fatal crash of PSA after Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182.