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Old 11-15-2009, 06:38 AM
 
Location: Declezville, CA
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Old 11-15-2009, 07:52 AM
 
Location: Las Flores, Orange County, CA
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Old 11-15-2009, 11:27 AM
 
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Very intense. We had been transferred to AZ for 18 months and were not living in SD area in Sept of 78, so I don't have the strong memories that residents do but I do remember it.
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Old 11-16-2009, 03:36 PM
 
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Yes, I remember it very well. I had just lived here about a year, the stories are horrible, don't want to get too graphic, but it was very bad. San Diego was still a pretty small place back in 1978.
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Old 11-16-2009, 08:03 PM
 
Location: Encinitas
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I was 8 yrs old and I remember reading about it in the paper (the evening Tribune that same day, if I'm not mistaken). The plane's wing in flames is sadly an iconic San Diego image. A real tragedy.
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Old 11-21-2009, 02:53 AM
 
Location: Wherever I want to be... ;)
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Sorry to bump this, but I just wanted to ask...

In the area where the crash occurred in North Park, are there any remnants of the crash left? Or have they all been developed over? Is there a memorial or anything of that sort? Didn't seem like it when I looked on Google Street View.

I have an odd fascination with disaster sites and I'm just curious. I'm swear, I'm not that much of a weirdo.
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Old 11-21-2009, 05:58 AM
 
Location: Las Flores, Orange County, CA
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Sorry to bump this, but I just wanted to ask...

In the area where the crash occurred in North Park, are there any remnants of the crash left? Or have they all been developed over? Is there a memorial or anything of that sort? Didn't seem like it when I looked on Google Street View.

I have an odd fascination with disaster sites and I'm just curious. I'm swear, I'm not that much of a weirdo.
I did the same thing, using both Google Street View and Bing, Bird's Eye View (much higher resolution than Google Maps). I didn't see anything at all that would have indicated a crash. However, one home there, on the northeast corner does look a little out of place, as if it had been built later than the other homes in the neighborhood. You'll have to look for yourself - could have been my imagination.

You can clearly see the exact impact point from a photo on this page:

PSA Flight 182 crash site San Diego

Here is the hi-res view from Bing (ensure Birds Eye View is enabled), rotate so west is up, to match the photo from above:

Your web browser and the Maps site are incompatible
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Old 11-21-2009, 09:56 AM
 
Location: Hookerville, formerly in Tweakerville
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Sorry to bump this, but I just wanted to ask...

In the area where the crash occurred in North Park, are there any remnants of the crash left? Or have they all been developed over? Is there a memorial or anything of that sort? Didn't seem like it when I looked on Google Street View.

I have an odd fascination with disaster sites and I'm just curious. I'm swear, I'm not that much of a weirdo.
I've been that way several time, and it's all been redeveloped over.
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Old 11-22-2009, 05:59 PM
 
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At that time several homes were wiped out. At first, the location was unclear so the police were sent to the wrong area. Then there was looting of the wreckage and deceased passengers. A young man was practicing flying a small plane which struck the passenger plane and they both went down. The small plane crashed at an intersection north of University Ave and the passenger plane hit south of University Avenue hitting homes. This was a horrible disaster.
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Old 11-23-2009, 05:01 AM
 
Location: Declezville, CA
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In the area where the crash occurred in North Park, are there any remnants of the crash left? Or have they all been developed over? Is there a memorial or anything of that sort? Didn't seem like it when I looked on Google Street View.
The only indication of the crash, other than a small brass plaque affixed to an iron fence at the NW corner of Dwight and Nile, are the architectural differences in the homes that were built to replace the ones destroyed in the crash.
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