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    Hughes Airwest Flight 706 was a regularly scheduled flight operated by American domestic airline Hughes Airwest from Los Angeles, California to Seattle...
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    Hughes Air Corporation, doing business as Hughes Airwest, was a local service carrier from 1970 to 1980 in the Western United States. It was backed by...
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    177 Cardinal over Quiberon Bay, Brittany, France in 1998. Hughes Airwest Flight 706, a similar midair collision between a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and a...
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    airliner involved in a mid-air collision over the Grand Canyon Hughes Airwest Flight 706 2001 Japan Airlines mid-air incident List of National Historic...
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    Airlines Flight 853, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 that collided with a Piper Cherokee in Fairland, Indiana on September 9, 1969. Hughes Airwest Flight 706 United...
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    on board. On 6 June 1971, a midair collision occurred between Hughes Airwest Flight 706 Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a Marine Corps F-4B Phantom being flown...
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  • air crashes, near-crashes, fires, hijackings, bombings, and other mainly flight-related disasters and crises. It reveals the events that led to each crisis...
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    1983 Rhein-Main Starfighter crash Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 Hughes Airwest Flight 706 The aircraft was a Boeing 727-200 model. Boeing assigns...
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    II of numerous variants on display worldwide. On 6 June 1971, Hughes Airwest Flight 706, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31 collided in mid-air with a United...
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    accident in which two or more aircraft come into unplanned contact during flight. Owing to the relatively high velocities involved and the likelihood of...
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    November 1971. Retrieved 17 June 2013. "ASN Accident Description (Hughes Airwest-706)". Aviation Safety Network. 6 June 1971. Retrieved 28 May 2013. "NTSB...
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    On the evening of June 6, 1971, Hughes Airwest Flight 706, a Douglas DC-9 jetliner that had departed LAX on a flight to Salt Lake City, Utah, was struck...
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  • Airlines Flight 815, which had 65 deaths in total. The oldest sole survivor is Alexander Sizov, who was 52 years old when YAK-Service Flight 9633 crashed...
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    politicians. Hughes Airwest Flight 706 All Nippon Airways Flight 58 Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 1983 Negev mid-air collision Iran Air Flight 655 1993...
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    collision of the two aircraft. All Nippon Airways Flight 58 Hughes Airwest Flight 706 Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 1103 List of Iranian aviation accidents and...
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    the coaching staff, 25 boosters, and others). On June 6, 1971, Hughes Airwest Flight 706 was involved in a midair collision with a U.S. Marine Corps F-4...
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  • civil airliner United Airlines Flight 736, a 1958 collision of a military jet and civil airliner Hughes Airwest Flight 706, a 1971 collision of a military...
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    February 18, 1969, killing all 35 passengers and crew on board. Hughes Airwest Flight 706 collided with a fighter jet on June 6, 1971, and crashed into...
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  • Dobrovolski, Viktor Patsayev) is launched. A midair collision between Hughes Airwest Flight 706 Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a U.S. Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas...
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  • who later claims not to remember the events aboard Flight 796. June 6 – Hughes Airwest Flight 706, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31, and a United States Marine...
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  • speak against war protests. June 6 – A midair collision between Hughes Airwest Flight 706 Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a U.S. Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas...
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    1913. p. 13. Retrieved June 1, 2024. Darack, Ed (March 2015). "The Final Flight of Extortion 17". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved December 20, 2022. Flores...
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  • Nevada to MCAS El Toro, California, collides in mid-air with Hughes Airwest Flight 706, a DC-9-31 (N9345) out of Los Angeles International Airport, at...
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