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Hughes Airwest Flight 706 The wreckage of the DC-9 at its crash site Accident Date June 6, 1971 (1971-06-06) 18:11 (6:11 PM) PDT Summary Mid-air collision Site San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, California, United States 34°10′30″N 118°00′00″W / 34.175°N 118.00°W / 34.175; -118.00 Total fatalities 50 Total survivors 1 First aircraft N9345, the Hughes Airwest DC ...
A USMC McDonnell Douglas F-4B-18-MC Phantom II, BuNo 151458, of VMFA-323, en route from NAS Fallon, Nevada to MCAS El Toro, California, collided in mid-air with Hughes Airwest Flight 706, a DC-9-31 (N9345) out of Los Angeles International Airport, at 1811 hrs. over the San Gabriel Mountains, N of Duarte, California.
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 706 (1961, Chicago O'Hare), Lockheed L-188 Electra crashed on take-off — maintenance error; Hughes Airwest Flight 706 (1971, California), a DC-9 passenger jet collided with F-4 Phantom fighter jet; British European Airways Flight 706 (1971, Belgium), spun out of control — corrosion caused rear pressure ...
Two months after the hijacking by D. B. Cooper of Northwest Orient flight 305, Hughes Airwest was the target of a copycat hijacker in early 1972. [ 45 ] [ 46 ] [ 47 ] After boarding Flight 800 at McCarran airport in Las Vegas in late morning on Thursday, January 20, 23-year-old Richard Charles LaPoint claimed he had a bomb while the plane was ...
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Hughes Airwest Flight 706 / F-4 Phantom: Climb San Gabriel Mountains, California, United States 1971: Jul 30: 162: 1 ANA Flight 58 / JASDF flight: Cruise near Shizukuishi, Japan 1971: Aug 4: 0: 98 Continental Airlines Flight 712 / Private Flight 3,950 ft Compton, California, United States 1972: Jun 29: 13: 0
On the evening of June 6, 1971, Hughes Airwest Flight 706, a Douglas DC-9 jetliner that had departed LAX on a flight to Salt Lake City, Utah, was struck nine minutes after takeoff by a U.S. Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter jet over the San Gabriel Mountains. The midair collision killed all 44 passengers and five crew ...