The Cessna Skyhawk is popular among flight training institutions. As for the 182, it was developed as a more powerful aircraft capable of longer-range, higher-altitude flight with higher payloads.

Flight 182 never made it. It collided midair with a small Cessna, crashing into a block of San Diego homes, killing 144 people. An FAA controller named Steve Gibby wrote a letter to his superiors ...