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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 ...
Hughes Airwest Flight 706: San Gabriel Mountains, near Duarte: California: McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31, McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II: The F-4 of the Marine Corps was flying under visual flight rules but failed to see the commercial aircraft in time to avoid a mid-air collision.
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Hughes Airwest Flight 706 collided with a fighter jet on June 6, 1971, and crashed into the San Gabriel Mountains near Duarte, California, killing all 49 people aboard. [32] Japan Airlines Flight 2 accidentally landed in San Francisco Bay while attempting to land at San Francisco International Airport during heavy fog on November 22, 1968.
First Officer of Flight 502. [56] 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 [57] [58] 24 December 1971 Juliane Koepcke: 17 Female P LANSA: Flight 508: 91 [59] 26 January 1972 Vesna Vulović: 22 Female C JAT Yugoslav: Flight 367: 27 Flight Attendant ...
June 6 – Hughes Airwest Flight 706, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31, and a United States Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4B-18-MC Phantom II of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 323 (VMFA-323) collide over the San Gabriel Mountains near Duarte, California. Both aircraft crash, killing all 49 people on board the DC-9 and one of the two men in the F-4B.