• Thumbnail for Air Vietnam Flight 706
    Air Vietnam Flight 706 was a Boeing 727 that crashed on September 15, 1974 after three hijackers detonated hand grenades as it was approaching Phan Rang...
    4 KB (253 words) - 02:15, 16 October 2024
  • rear pressure bulkhead failure Air Vietnam Flight 706 (1974, South Vietnam), hijacked and crashed Proteus Airlines Flight 706 (1998, France), a Beechcraft...
    673 bytes (117 words) - 22:03, 19 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Malaysian Airline System Flight 653
    source needed] of the passengers and crew appear in the table below: Air Vietnam Flight 706 Portals: Malaysia Aviation 1970s The aircraft was a Boeing 737-200...
    15 KB (1,266 words) - 11:00, 8 November 2024
  • were killed. Air Vietnam Flight 706 hijacking – Hijacked, then crashed after a missed approach at Phan Rang. Vietnam Airlines Flight 474 – The Yakovlev...
    191 KB (26,393 words) - 01:52, 26 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aeroflot Flight 109
    Airlines Flight 93 Air Vietnam Flight 706 Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 Pan Am Flight 103 "Туполев Ту-104А Бортовой №: СССР-42379" [Tupolev Tu-104A Flight No:...
    8 KB (788 words) - 18:52, 21 October 2024
  • aircraft. Of 113 people on board, 108 died. September 15, 1974: Air Vietnam Flight 706 was hijacked by a former South Vietnamese army officer who ordered...
    45 KB (5,834 words) - 00:32, 8 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Air Vietnam
    Active from 1951 to 1975, Air Viet Nam (Air VN) (Vietnamese: Hãng Hàng không Việt Nam) was South Vietnam's first commercial air carrier, headquartered in...
    21 KB (2,652 words) - 07:09, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of deadliest aircraft accidents and incidents
    passenger and cargo flights, military passenger and cargo flights, or general aviation flights that have been involved in a ground or mid-air collision. As...
    319 KB (14,531 words) - 09:43, 25 November 2024
  • board were killed. September 15 – Air Vietnam Flight 706, a Boeing 727, was hijacked and crashed in Phan Rang, Vietnam following an aborted landing; all...
    390 KB (58,111 words) - 02:15, 26 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hughes Airwest
    firm of Mario Armond Zamparelli, following the crash of Flight 706 in June 1971, caused by a mid-air collision with a U.S. Marine Corps F-4B jet fighter near...
    32 KB (2,583 words) - 12:04, 19 October 2024
  • System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm is hijacked and flown to Malmö Bulltofta Airport. 1974 – Air Vietnam Flight 706 is hijacked, then...
    60 KB (5,951 words) - 02:12, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for September 1974
    aboard Air Vietnam Flight 706 were killed when three hijackers detonated grenades as the Boeing 727 was attempting an emergency landing at Phan Rang Air Base...
    175 KB (17,893 words) - 20:33, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for South Vietnam Air Force
    The South Vietnam Air Force, officially the Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF; Vietnamese: Không lực Việt Nam Cộng hòa, KLVNCH; French: Force aérienne...
    124 KB (16,128 words) - 00:52, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for North American F-100 Super Sabre
    fighters, it was the first United States Air Force (USAF) fighter capable of supersonic speed in level flight. The F-100 was envisioned during the late...
    90 KB (10,709 words) - 05:01, 13 November 2024
  • hand grenades hijacks Air Vietnam Flight 706, a Boeing 727-121C on a flight from Da Nang, South Vietnam, to Saigon, South Vietnam, shortly after takeoff...
    56 KB (6,880 words) - 21:34, 24 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vietnam War
    The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina...
    288 KB (29,916 words) - 06:51, 25 November 2024
  • ISBN 978-1-78057-748-7. Simpson, Paul (16 October 2014). The Mammoth Book of Air Disasters and Near Misses. Little, Brown Book Group. ISBN 978-1-78033-829-3...
    165 KB (6,570 words) - 06:06, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II
    display worldwide. On 6 June 1971, Hughes Airwest Flight 706, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31 collided in mid-air with a United States Marine Corps F-4B Phantom...
    152 KB (16,813 words) - 08:25, 23 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of air rage incidents
    documented case of air rage was recorded in 1947 on a flight from Havana to Miami, when a drunk man assaulted another passenger and a flight attendant. Another...
    342 KB (41,153 words) - 06:32, 25 November 2024
  • VN-A120 Tupolev Tu-134 Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 VN-A449 Yakovlev Yak-40 Vietnam Airlines Flight 474 XV-NJC Boeing 727-121C Air Vietnam Flight 706...
    142 KB (180 words) - 21:07, 24 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mid-air collision
    In aviation, a mid-air collision is an accident in which two or more aircraft come into unplanned contact during flight. Owing to the relatively high velocities...
    33 KB (1,155 words) - 01:46, 9 November 2024
  • military and immigration history". October 5, 1975: Aerolíneas Argentinas Flight 706 was hijacked by a Montoneros platoon as part of Operation Primicia. The...
    156 KB (18,247 words) - 17:12, 23 November 2024
  • produced by Cineflix that recounts air crashes, near-crashes, fires, hijackings, bombings, and other mainly flight-related disasters and crises. It reveals...
    236 KB (809 words) - 02:31, 26 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Phu Cat Air Base Security Forces
    responsible for the air base ground defense of Phù Cát Air Base in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Phu Cat AB was the field test site for the six-month...
    20 KB (2,852 words) - 08:04, 22 January 2023
  • Vietnam 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...
    50 KB (2,733 words) - 12:33, 25 November 2024
  • Force  Panama Panamanian Air Force  Qatar Qatar Amiri Flight  Russia Government of Tatarstan  Saudi Arabia Saudia Royal Flight  Tajikistan Military of...
    39 KB (286 words) - 04:40, 30 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Northwest Airlines
    carrier, and carried more domestic air cargo than any other American passenger airline. Regional and commuter airline flights for Northwest were operated under...
    117 KB (10,545 words) - 07:16, 12 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for United States Navy Nurse Corps
    Naval flight nurses graduated from the Navy Flight Nurse School at the Naval Air Station Alameda, California on 22 January 1945. In addition to flight nurse...
    50 KB (4,493 words) - 17:01, 15 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Marine Corps Air Station El Toro
    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 to MCAS...
    30 KB (3,552 words) - 08:21, 17 November 2024
  • Rang, South Vietnam Le Duc Tan, a South Vietnamese ranger who had recently had his position in the army demoted hijacked Air Vietnam Flight 706 and demanded...
    11 KB (342 words) - 10:43, 1 February 2023