Richard was flying on a joyride from San Francisco to San Jose to Monterrey to San Jose to San Francisco.

On January 9, 1975, this aircraft was destroyed in a mid-air collision while on approach to LAX on a flight from Ontario, California with a Cessna 150 N11421 on a training flight, killing the two crew, eight passengers and the two pilots in the Cessna. A summary of the accident is at http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19750109-1