“By the time Julie Clark was working as a pilot, an important change had come to America’s skies: It was required that the door to the cockpit was locked on all flights. The law was named the Clark Act, after her father.”
And now you know the rest of the story. Thanks for the post.
That’s not a picture of a jetliner.
“...Despite facing sexism at every turn, [the murdered pilot’s daughter] became one of the first female commercial airline pilots in the nation...”
SFGate just... can’t... help... themselves. Wokies gotta woke!
Nevertheless, an interesting article about an event that I was born too late to remember at the time. Thanks for posting it!
“”””””While there, he bought two life insurance policies totaling $105,000; remarkably, life insurance could be bought from vending machines at the airport throughout the 1950s and 1960s.””””””
As one of the guests on the Carson show described, in those days he used to like to dress as a pilot and pretend to be wobbly, wasted drunk while buying life insurance from the loading entrance machines.
Yes, thanks for posting this.
I was an aviation cadet in 1964. I read the newspaper every day, but this is the first I’ve heard of this.
One of the biggest mistakes our government has made was creating the TSA. ‘Nuff said.
I did not know about this crash, but it reminded me of a similar crash in the late 1970’s when a good friend was killed on a PSA plane.
Similar circumstances, the shooter killed the pilot and all aboard were killed in the crash.
There was no black box, so we’ll never know exactly what happened in the final moments of Flight 773. But the preponderance of evidence indicates that Gonzales got up from his seat, walked into the cockpit and shot the captain, then the first officer.
For the first time in American history, airline passengers had something new to fear: murder in the skies.
United Airlines Flight 23, October 10, 1933. Seven murdered on a Boeing 247.
United Airlines flight 629. November 1, 1955. 44 murdered on the DC-6