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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 RAF McDonnell Douglas/Hawker Siddeley F-4M Phantom FGR.2, XV479, 'J', of No. 54 Squadron, [96] on a training mission crashed into a farmhouse near Holstebro, Denmark, as the result of engine failure on take-off [97] killing a woman and her child. Police and rescuers who rushed to the scene could do nothing to save them from the burning house.
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.
On 21 June 1971, F-4 Phantom from VX-4 crashed in a bean field adjacent to NAS Pt. Mugu. No survivors. On 4 August 1972, Douglas DC-3 N31538 of Mercer Airlines suffered an in-flight engine fire shortly after take-off on a cargo flight to Hollywood-Burbank Airport. The aircraft departed the runway in the emergency landing and was destroyed by ...
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 ]
An F-4 Phantom from VF-102 intercepting an Egyptian Air Force Tupolev TU-16 Badger over the Mediterranean Sea on 12 January 1971. VF-102 F-4J Phantom II circa 1977 In 1975 and 1978, VF-102 conducted cross-deck operations aboard HMS Ark Royal .
AMHC Gilbert Chavarria attached to US Navy VF-154 the Black Knights, while on board USS Coral Sea died after being blown into a parked F-4 Phantom II, by another F-4 Phantom during flight deck operations in the Sea of Japan. 22 February Blue Angels pilot Lcdr. Stu Powrie, 1970 Naval Academy graduate killed in A-4 Skyhawk crash during airshow ...
Tenth Lockheed U-2A, Article 350, 56–6683, delivered to the CIA on 24 April 1956, converted to U-2F by spring 1963; loaned to SAC for Cuba overflight missions, crashes into the Gulf of Mexico 40 miles (64 km) NW of Key West, Florida, killing pilot Capt. Joe Hyde, Jr. Pilot was returning from a Brass Knob mission and was hand-flying the ...