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9. Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182 was a scheduled flight on September 25, 1978, by Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA), from Sacramento to San Diego ( SAN ), with a stopover at Los Angeles ( LAX ). The aircraft serving the flight, a Boeing 727-214 [ a] ( registration: #N533PS), collided mid-air with a private Cessna 172 ( light aircraft; # ...
November 1595. A Manila galleon under the command of Sebastião Rodrigues Soromenho that was wrecked at anchor in Drakes Bay, the first shipwreck in California. 37°59′48″N123°01′11″W / 37.99677°N 123.01984°W / 37.99677; -123.01984 (San Augustin) Tennessee. 6 March 1853.
North Park sign near the intersection of 30th Street and University Avenue at dusk. North Park is a neighborhood in San Diego, California, United States, as well as a larger "community" as defined by the City of San Diego for planning purposes. [1]
The Honda Point disaster was the largest peacetime loss of U.S. Navy ships in U.S. history. [3] On the evening of September 8, 1923, seven destroyers, while traveling at 20 knots (37 km/h), ran aground at Honda Point (also known as Point Pedernales; the cliffs just off-shore called Devil's Jaw), a few miles from the northern side of the Santa Barbara Channel off Point Arguello on the Gaviota ...
30 March. A Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, 59-2576, of the 341st Bombardment Squadron, 4038th Strategic Wing, [ 73] Dow Air Force Base, Maine, exploded in flight at 2115 hrs. with the wreckage falling near Denton, North Carolina. Debris was scattered over a ten-mile (16 km) area, starting fires in woods and fields.
SAN DIEGO, July 31 – A Navy fighter plane carried its pilot to flaming death in a crash near Mt. Palomar today. The Corsair fighter was on a flight from the San Diego naval air station. It exploded as it struck and the flames spread in dry grass, burning over about an acre in the dry hills, about 50 miles north of here.
Wreck Alley is an artificial reef and recreational diving destination off the coast of San Diego . In addition to the artificial reef created by multiple shipwrecks, the area also includes submerged ocean platforms and remains of the old Ingraham Street Bridge. Metridium Anemone on the wreck of HMCS Yukon. These different sunken structures make ...
The 1959 San Diego F3H crash was the crash of a United States Navy McDonnell F3H-2N Demon in San Diego, California, on 4 December 1959.The pilot, Ensign Albert Joseph Hickman from VF-121, chose not to eject from the stricken aircraft, piloting it away from populated areas of Clairemont, including an elementary school, saving "as many as 700 people" on the ground, according to one estimate.