What the records say
- When
- 21 Apr 1958
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 36.00° N, 115.21° W
- Description
- mid-air collision
- Deaths
- 49
United Air Lines Flight 736
1958 mid-air collision in Nevada
United Air Lines Flight 736 was a scheduled American transcontinental passenger service flown daily by United Airlines between Los Angeles and New York City. On April 21, 1958, the airliner assigned to the flight, a Douglas DC-7 with 47 on board, was flying over Clark County, Nevada in clear weather when it was involved in a daytime mid-air collision with a United States Air Force fighter jet crewed by two pilots.
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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 “United Airlines Flight 736 is involved in a mid-air collision with a U.S. Air Force F-100F jet fighter over what becomes Enterprise, Nevada”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Над Лас-Вегасом столкнулись самолёты Douglas DC-7 и F-100 Super Sabre, погибли 49 человек”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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