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Hughes Airwest Flight 706 The wreckage of hughes Airwest Flight 706 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 ...
Two USAF McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom IIs collided in mid-air over the town of El Buste, Spain, about 30 miles from the joint US-Spanish base at Zaragoza. F-4D-28-MC, 65-0708 , c/n 1753, [ 103 ] and F-4D-31-MC, 66-7651 , c/n 2231, [ 116 ] both of the 23d Tactical Fighter Squadron , 36th Tactical Fighter Wing , were lost, [ 104 ] and all four ...
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1971 (22 P) Pages in category "Aviation accidents and incidents in 1971" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
June 4 – Transpo 72 Airshow (Dulles International Airport) – U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds pilot Major Joe Howard, flying Thunderbird 3, F-4 Phantom II, 66-0321, lost power during a vertical maneuver, breaking out of formation just after completing a wedge roll at around 2,500 ft (760 m) AGL. The aircraft staggered and descended in a flat ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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. [209] 5 June US Marine Corps AV-8B-4 Harrier II, BuNo. 162073, of VMA-331, crashes into Barnegat Bay, New Jersey, when the engine ...