Originally Posted by
miniliq
I'll try two more and call it a night:
4) Golden West Airlines, nonstop from LAX, FAT, and SFO; direct service from a few other California cities.
5) Paradise Airlines (not to be confused with Air Paradise, or Paradise Island Airlines). Don't know much about this carrier, but on 3/1/64 Flight 901A, a Lockheed L-049 arriving from San Jose, crashed in inclement weather, killing all aboard (81 pax and 4 crew).
Correct on both counts as well.....and that was a terrible accident in the Sierra Nevada mountains above Lake Tahoe.