Hijacker Murders All 43 Passengers/Crew on Commuter Flight

Black Box Down

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, Aviation, Leisure

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Gustavo Sorola and Chris Demarais uncover the details of Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 after a hijacker took over the aircraft with a revolver he smuggled past security and ended up murdering all 43 people on board. Find out how this nightmare unfolded on this episode of Black Box Down. This episode is sponsored by Lectric Bikes, go to http://lectricebikes.com to learn more about Lectric eBikes’ Ready, Set, Spring Sale. This episode is also brought to you by Rocket Money, go to http://rocketmoney.com/blackboxdown to cancel unwanted subscriptions with Rocket Money. Find us on social media and buy our merch here! https://linktr.ee/BlackBoxDownPod Go to blackboxdownpod.com to support us directly! Download the public audio version https://link.chtbl.com/blackboxdown. Already a FIRST Member and need your Private RSS feed for this show? Go here: http://bit.ly/FIRSTRSS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Rooster Teeth production.
0:07.0	December 7, 1987, Pacific Southwest Airlines 1771, a British aerospace 146 regional airliner
0:14.4	with 43 people on board, is servicing a commuter flight from Los Angeles International
0:18.6	Airport to San Francisco International Airport. Pacific Southwest Airlines flight 1771 departs
0:23.7	LAX at 3.31 pm and was scheduled to arrive at San Francisco at 4.43 pm. They would not
0:29.9	make it to their destination. The first 28 minutes of the cockpit voice recorder indicate
0:33.9	a routine flight. Just after the captain requested a change in altitude due to turbulence, the
0:38.5	cockpit voice recorder recorded the sound of three to four gunshots and a crew member
0:42.4	could be heard stating, my god, that's a gun. The flight was hijacked by an armed passenger
0:46.7	and forced to impact a hillside at around 770 miles an hour, slightly faster than the
0:52.0	speed of sound. The impact was on the Santa Rita cattle ranch and the Santa Lucia mountains
0:56.4	between Paso Robles and Cayucos. What happened in the cabin and how did the hijacker gain
1:00.9	access to the cockpit with a loaded weapon? How was he able to bypass security and commit
1:04.7	the second worst mass murder in California at the time? Find out on this episode of Black
1:09.0	Box Down.
1:13.0	Hello everyone, welcome to Black Box Down. It's Gus and Chris. Hello Chris. Hi. We're back
1:17.0	with another episode. Yeah, and this one sounds wild. Yeah, a little wild. Chris has been
1:21.7	talking a lot yesterday. So if he sounds a little strange, that's what's going on. His voice
1:26.8	is a little tired right now, a little, a little scratchy. Before, of course, we get into it.
1:31.2	Want to remind everyone, give us follow on social media at Black Box DownPod, Facebook,
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1:39.8	your mind. Kind of supplemental helps you see what we're talking about. I set this in a recent
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