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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 ...
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]
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.
All 67 people aboard both aircraft were killed in the crash, including 64 passengers and crew on the airliner and the 3 crew of the helicopter. It was the first major U.S. commercial passenger flight crash in nearly 16 years since Colgan Air Flight 3407 in 2009, and the deadliest U.S. air disaster in nearly 24 years. [6] [7]
A timeline of the Washington, D.C., plane crash on Jan. 29 details the moments before and after an American Airlines passenger flight and Army helicopter collided over the Potomac.
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 ...
The video comes as officials say they have recovered the remains of 55 of the 67 victims from the crash close to Reagan National Airport near Washington DC. Crews comb through US army helicopter ...
1973 Nantes mid-air collision; O. Ozark Air Lines Flight 650; ... 1972 Adana Turkish Airlines DC-9 crash; TWA Flight 541; TWA Flight 553; U. USA Jet Airlines Flight 199;