What the records say
- When
- 6 Jun 1971
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 34.17° N, 118.00° W
- Description
- 1971 aviation accident in Los Angeles County, California
- Deaths
- 50
- Injured
- 0
- Cause
- aviation accident
Hughes Airwest Flight 706
1971 mid-air collision over California
Hughes Airwest Flight 706 was a regularly scheduled flight operated by American domestic airline Hughes Airwest from Los Angeles, California, to Seattle, Washington, with several intermediate stops. On Sunday, June 6, 1971, the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 serving as Flight 706 departed Los Angeles just after 6 p.m.
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- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A midair collision between Hughes Airwest Flight 706 Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a U.S. Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom jet fighter near Duarte”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Над горами Сан-Гейбриел в Калифорнии столкнулись самолёты McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31 авиакомпании «Hughes Airwest» и истребитель McDonnell Douglas F-4B-18-MC…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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