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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 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 ...
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 ...
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.
Disturbing new videos give the clearest view yet of the moment the American Airlines passenger plane and Army helicopter exploded into pieces — sending huge chunks of fiery debris crashing into ...
First Officer of Flight 502. [60] 1971-06-06 Lt. Christopher E. Schiess 24 Male C United States Marine Corps: F-4 mid-air collision with Hughes Airwest Flight 706: 50 [61] [62] 1971-12-24 Juliane Koepcke: 17 Female P LANSA: Flight 508: 91 [63] 1972-01-26 Vesna Vulović: 22 Female C JAT Yugoslav: Flight 367: 27 Flight Attendant aboard Flight 367.
Air travel these days feels more like a necessary chore than a luxury, and that becomes clearer with each flight. The seats are cramped, legroom is scarce, the drink cart makes a single appearance ...
Flames race up the hill as the plume of smoke from the new Hughes Fire fills the sky on the east side of Interstate 5 freeway in Castaic, a northwestern neighborhood of Los Angeles on Jan. 22, 2025.