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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 ...
This is a list of notable accidents and incidents involving mid-air collisions. [1] [2] [3] 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 involved and the likelihood of subsequent impact with the ground or sea, very severe damage ...
9 February Two U.S. Air Force Republic F-105 Thunderchiefs of the 457th TFTW (TH tailcode), Carswell AFB, Texas, collided in mid-air, downing one aircraft ~1 mile (1.6 km) from Holliday, Texas; its pilot ejected, suffering a broken right leg on landing, and was recovered by helicopter. The second F-105 returned to Carswell despite damage, its ...
Two planes collided mid-air north of Los Angeles on Sunday, leaving one person dead, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department. The department responded at 1:20 p.m. to two downed planes ...
The first XB-70 carried out its maiden flight in September 1964 and many more test flights followed. [71] The data from the XB-70 test flights and aerospace materials development were used in the later B-1 bomber program, the American supersonic transport (SST) program, and via espionage, the Soviet Union's Tupolev Tu-144 SST program. [72]
A mid-air collision between and American Airlines flight and military helicopter has killed 67, officials said. Both aircraft plunged into the Potomac River near Washington, D.C, after the crash ...
School communities in Virginia and Ohio mourned the victims and families devastated by the horrific mid-air collision between a passenger plane and an Army helicopter in nearby Washington, D.C ...
XB-70 Valkyrie 62-0207 following the mid-air collision on 8 June 1966: The XB-70 can be seen at the far left of the image, missing one of its vertical stabilizers, while the large fireball is the F-104 Starfighter with which it collided.