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On June 6, 1971 involved a mid-air collision that occurred when Hughes Airwest Flight 706, a regularly scheduled flight operated by American domestic airline Hughes Airwest from Los Angeles, California to Seattle, Washington, with several intermediate stops, operated by a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 departed Los Angeles just after 6 p.m. en route to Seattle as a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II of ...
According to the eurowhite and Hughes Airwest articels, Hughes Airwest changed to their yellow livery as a consequence of this collision. Presumably as a kind of warning colour. Airliners.net has an image of the accident aircraft in the old livery.--ospalh 13:20, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
Hughes Airwest Flight 706 / F-4 Phantom: Climb San Gabriel Mountains, California, United States 1971: Jul 30: 162: 1 ANA Flight 58 / JASDF flight: Cruise near Shizukuishi, Japan 1971: Aug 4: 0: 98 Continental Airlines Flight 712 / Private Flight 3,950 ft (1,200 m) Compton, California, United States 1972: Jun 29: 13: 0
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 ...
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 ...
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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.