The McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31 aircraft had accumulated 5,542 airframe hours since entering service in 1969. The crash of RW 706 prompted the US Armed Forces to agree both to reduce the number of military aircraft operating under visual flight rules in civilian air corridors, and to require military aircraft to contact civilian air traffic controllers.įlight 706 was a scheduled passenger flight from Los Angeles International Airport, California and Seattle–Tacoma International Airport, Washington. Only the radar intercept officer of the F-4B survived. Its pilot and all 49 passengers and crew aboard the civilian airliner died in the collision over the San Gabriel Mountains, near Duarte. Completing a cross-country flight, the F-4B Phantom was arriving from Naval Air Station Fallon in Nevada to land at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro near Irvine. Marine Corps F-4B Phantom II over southern California.įlight 706 had departed Los Angeles just after 6 pm, en route to Seattle, with stopovers in Salt Lake City, Utah Boise, Idaho Lewiston, Idaho Pasco, Washington and Yakima, Washington. On Sunday, June 6, 1971, the Douglas DC-9-31 serving the flight collided in mid-air with a U.S. Hughes Airwest Flight 706 was a regularly scheduled flight operated by Hughes Airwest, from Los Angeles, California, to Seattle, Washington, with numerous intermediate stops. Marine Corps F-4B Phantom II similar to the one involved
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