PSA Flight 182 - Prior Telemovie

Prior Telemovie

In a case of life imitating art, the NBC telemovie Emergency!: Survival on Charter #220 (effectively a two-hour Emergency! episode filmed after the show was no longer a weekly series) had aired in March 1978, six months before the accident involving PSA Flight 182. It detailed the accidental daytime mid-air collision of a Douglas DC-8 airliner, and a much smaller two-person aircraft and the resulting crash and carnage in a residential area of Los Angeles County.