Contra Costa County, near Danville, California, U.S. 37°45′33″N121°52′25″W / 37.75919°N 121.87364°W / 37.75919; -121.87364
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Fairchild F27A Friendship
Operator
Pacific Air Lines
Registration
N2770R
Flight origin
Reno–Tahoe International Airport, Nevada
Stopover
Stockton Metropolitan Airport Stockton, California
Destination
San Francisco International Airport, California
Occupants
44
Passengers
41 (including the perpetrator)
Crew
3
Fatalities
44
Survivors
0
Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 was a Fairchild F27A Friendship airliner that crashed on May 7, 1964, near Danville, California, a suburb east of Oakland.[1][2] The crash was most likely the first instance in the United States of an airliner's pilots being shot by a passenger as part of a murder–suicide. Francisco Paula Gonzales, 27, shot both pilots before turning the gun on himself, causing the plane to crash, killing all 44 aboard.[3][4][5]
As of May 2021[update], the crash of Flight 773 remains the worst incident of mass murder in modern California history, one death more than the subsequent Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 hijacking in 1987.
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^"Airliner crashes, burns in California, 44 dead". The Bulletin. (Bend, Oregon). UPI. May 7, 1964. p. 1.
^"Accident Report, Pacific Air Lines incident of May 7, 1964, File No: 1-0017". Civil Aeronautics Board. October 28, 1964. Retrieved October 8, 2023.
^"Shooting of pilots blamed for crash". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. November 2, 1964. p. 5A.
^"Investigations: Death Wish". Time. November 6, 1964. Archived from the original on January 27, 2010. Retrieved March 20, 2012.
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