 People saw her disheveled appearance and were afraid; Charles Manson had recently been put on trial in the town, and his female followers spent a lot of time hanging around it.Lauren Elder wrote a book about the crash (with Shirley Streshinsky) entitled "And I Alone Survived", which was later made into a TV movie with the same title, as well as a documentary aired by the Discovery Channel.The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) ruled the accident was caused by the pilot in command (PIC), who "continued flight into known areas of severe turbulence."