Hughes Airwest Flight 706
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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, Washington, with several intermediate stops. O
Wreckage of Flight 706 in the San Gabriel Mountains
N9345, the McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31 involved in the collision, seen in 1970
151458, the McDonnell F-4B Phantom II involved in the collision, while still in service with a previous squadron in 1965
The wreckage of the F-4 at its crash site
The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is an American tandem two-seat, twin-engine, all-weather, long-range supersonic jet interceptor and fighter-bomber that was developed by McDonnell Aircraft for the
Hughes Airwest Flight 706
…stops. On Sunday, June 6, 1971, the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 serving as Flight 706 departed Los Angeles just after 6 p.m. en route to Seattle as a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II of the United States Marine Corps was approaching Marine Corps Air Station El Toro near Irvine at the end of a flight from Naval Air Station Fallon in…
QF 4 Holloman AFB
The McDonnell F3H-G/H mockup, 1954
Key figures in the F-4 development: David Lewis, Robert Little, and Herman Barkey
An F4H-1F aboard Independence, April 1960