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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.
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 bulkhead failure; Air Vietnam Flight 706 (1974, South Vietnam), hijacked and crashed
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 ...
First Officer of Flight 502. [52] 6 June 1971 Lt. Christopher E. Schiess 24 Male C United States Marine Corps: F-4 mid-air collision with Hughes Airwest Flight 706: 50 [53] [54] 24 December 1971 Juliane Koepcke: 17 Female P LANSA: Flight 508: 91 [55] 26 January 1972 Vesna Vulović: 22 Female C JAT Yugoslav: Flight 367: 27 Flight Attendant ...
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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 ...