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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 ...
USMC F-4 pilots claimed three enemy MiGs at the cost of one aircraft in air-combat. USAF F-4 Phantom crews scored 107 + 1 ⁄ 2 MiG kills (including 33 + 1 ⁄ 2 MiG-17s, eight MiG-19s and 66 MiG-21s) at a cost of 33 Phantoms in air-combat. [92] F-4 pilots were credited with a total of 150 + 1 ⁄ 2 MiG kills at a cost of 42 Phantoms in air-combat.
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 ...
The collision of an airplane and a military helicopter was caught on video -- there was a fiery explosion. Video shows DC plane crash involving American Airlines flight, Black Hawk helicopter Skip ...
The 1977 Yokohama F-4 crash was a military aviation accident that occurred on September 27, 1977, in Yokohama, Japan. A United States Marine Corps RF-4B Phantom II, a reconnaissance variant of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II , suffered a mechanical malfunction while en route from Naval Air Facility Atsugi to the USS Midway in Sagami Bay .
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 ...
Shocking video captured an F-35 fighter jet plummeting onto the runway and bursting into flames during a training exercise at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska early Tuesday afternoon. The...