On Oct. 26, 1927, an air mail flight over the mountains ended in drama when the pilot was forced to parachute through heavy fog near Castaic, surviving a 9,000-foot leap to safety. Pilot Charles R. “Dick” Bowman, part of the Pacific Air Transport line running from Seattle to Los Angeles, took off in plane #2072 from the Newhall Airport at ...

On October 26, 1927, an air mail flight over the mountains ended in drama when the pilot was forced to parachute through heavy fog near Castaic, surviving a 9,000-foot leap to safety. Pilot Charles R. “Dick” Bowman, part of the Pacific Air Transport line running from Seattle to Los Angeles, took off in plane #2072 from the Newhall Airport at ...