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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 ...
The 1968 Kyushu University Computer Center McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II crash occurred on June 2, 1968, when an RF-4C Phantom reconnaissance aircraft of the United States Air Force crashed into the under-construction Large Computer Center at Kyushu University in Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture. The crash destroyed the building's fifth and ...
Moments later the twin-engined aircraft crashed into trees in heavy rain and fog, coming down three-quarters of a mile west of the airport's main runway. Burba, 58, died in the accident as did CW2 Paul R. Burt and CW3 Maynard R. Reisinger. Aide Capt. James B. Bickerton was listed in critical condition in hospital where he was admitted to surgery.
June 6, 1971: 50: 1 Hughes Airwest Flight 706 / F-4 Phantom: Climb San Gabriel Mountains, California, United States July 30, 1971: 162: 1 ANA Flight 58 / JASDF flight: Cruise near Shizukuishi, Japan August 4, 1971: 0: 98 Continental Airlines Flight 712 / Private Flight 3,950 ft (1,200 m) Compton, California, United States June 29, 1972: 13: 0
McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II of the 301st TFW crashed into Lake Worth on approach to Carswell AFB following a training mission at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Pilot was killed. WSO ejected and was critically injured. [206] 5 June US Marine Corps AV-8B-4 Harrier II, BuNo. 162073, of VMA-331, crashes into Barnegat Bay, New Jersey, when the engine ...
Investigators head into the debris field at the site of a commercial plane crash near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, September 11, 2001. The crash is one of four planes that were hijacked as part of a ...
Over 16 years, BAE had converted 314 F-4 and RF-4 Phantom IIs into QF-4s and QRF-4s, with each aircraft taking six months to adapt. [107] By December 2013, QF-4 and QRF-4 aircraft had flown over 16,000 manned and 600 unmanned training sorties, with 250 unmanned aircraft being shot down in firing exercises. [ 107 ]
The new Netflix drama, directed by J.A. Bayona, tells the story of the disaster, which happened in October 1972 when Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed into the Andes mountains, immediately ...