Crime History: Olympic sailor seizes plane in murder-suicide

On this day, May 7, in 1964, a member of the 1960 Philippine Olympic sailing team shot the pilots of a commercial airliner, plunging the plane to its destruction in Northern California, killing all 44 aboard.

Francisco Gonzales, 27, was depressed over money and marital problems. As the plane from Reno began its descent into to San Francisco, Gonzales pulled a revolver, entered the cockpit and shot the captain in the head.