Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 Cockpit Voice Recorder [1987]

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, 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. 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. This cockpit voice recorder audio was released by the FBI through a FOIA request. It is not complete, as the FBI deleted sections of audio involving conversation pursuant to exemptions (b)(6) and (b)(7)(C), pending appeal to the DOJ.