And you'll get none." If it's happening in commercial aviation, you'll get the information and opinions here first. His wife, Dorothy, works as a flight attendant for American Airlines.Private security guards kept watch on their split-level house Tuesday. It was Pacific Southwest Airlines' first fatal accident. His co-workers said he had a reputation for being, as one put it, “very intelligent and very cool.” And people who lived near his modest, three-bedroom condominium on West Spring Street in Long Beach described the stocky son of a Rochester, N.Y., cabdriver as “always very nice, congenial.”According to co-workers and company officials, Burke transferred to Los Angeles in late 1986 after working 14 years for the airline in Rochester, N.Y.Officials in the Los Angeles city attorney’s office said allegations that Burke stole $69 from a USAir office in Los Angeles on Nov. 15 led to consideration of misdemeanor charges against him.“Our people were supposed to meet with police today (Tuesday) to discuss the case,” Mike Qualls, a spokesman for the city attorney’s office, said Tuesday.Thomson was described by employees as a firm but fair supervisor. A final gunshot was heard followed not long after by a sudden silence. ", to which Captain Lindamood replied, "What's the problem?" But it’s unclear whether he has the power to do so.Scientists searching for a medicine to treat patients with COVID-19 are looking for it in the blood of people who have already survived the disease.Some airlines ban passengers from future flights if they refuse to wear a mask. PSA Flight 1771. Thomson was a passenger on th… Burke had been terminated by USAir for petty theft of $69 from in-flight cocktail receipts, and had also been suspected of other crimes. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. A shot was fired, presumably killing the flight attendant, and Burke announced "I'm the problem," and two more shots are heard that either incapacitated or killed the pilots. Well, I got none and you'll get none." All 43 people on board the aircraft were killed.
They combed the steep incline where the airliner, after what was described by witnesses as a screaming, 45-degree dive, slammed to earth and exploded into thousands of tiny pieces.“We’re looking for a weapon,” Bretzing had said early in the morning, “and hopefully if there’s one we’ll find it.”No weapon, however, had been found by 12:30 p.m., when the search was suspended because a rainstorm turned the crash site into a quagmire, raising fears that valuable evidence might be trampled.Pieces of aircraft and human remains that littered the crash site were tagged with fluorescent orange tape and recorded on a grid chart. Well, I got none and you'll get none.The most plausible theory as to what happened was deduced from the pattern and audible volume of the shots on the CVR.The CVR then recorded the cockpit door opening and flight attendant Deborah Neil telling the cockpit crew, "We have a problem! "There is evidence to believe that David Burke was involved in the destruction of PSA Flight 1771." This was probably when Burke shot Thomson to death. Patricia Goldman, head of the National Transportation Safety Board's on-site investigators, said they could find "no apparent problems with the aircraft, frame, structure or engines" that would have led to the crash. The high-speed impact compressed the soil, which almost immediately rebounded, throwing fragments and … Weirdly, he was a bishop with the Mormon Church even while holding his position with FBI. Some former girlfriends, neighbors and law-enforcement described him as a violent man before the murders. Page 1. It is estimated that the aircraft hit the ground at five thousand times the force of gravity, and was traveling at an approximately 70-degree angle toward the south. And that,” Bretzing told a press conference held one-half mile from the crash site, “is based not only on the tape that the air traffic controllers have, but on other investigations we are conducting outside of this area.”Investigators refused comment on a report by ABC-TV, quoting an unnamed government source, that Burke had left behind a suicide message. After the crash site was located by a CBS News helicopter piloted by Bob Tur, investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) were joined by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Moreover, the theory, if accurate, would leave investigators and aviation officials with other troublesome questions: How could shots fired from within bring down an airliner? He then fired two more rounds.