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Old May 12, 2012, 10:20 am
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jlemon
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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.
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