Torn APART Without Warning! | Hughes Airwest Flight 706

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On June 6, 1971, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 airliner and a US Marine Corps F-4 Phantom fighter jet collided over Southern California, this tragic accident exposed critical flaws in US airspace management that still exist today.

This is the full story of Hughes Airwest Flight 706
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Below you will find the links to videos and sources used in this episode.

SOURCES
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Final Report: NTSB
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR7226.pdf

Aircraft Used: DC-9 BY SKY SIMULATIONS
F4 PHANTOM BY DC DESIGNS by

Air West Fiarchild: RuthAS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Airwest#/media/File:Fairchild_F-27A_N755L_Air_West_SFO_19.09.70_edited-3.jpg

Howard Hughes: Acme Newspictures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes#/media/File:Howard_Hughes_1938.jpg

Hughes H-4 Hercules: SDASM Archives
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes#/media/File:H-4_Hercules_2.jpg

S-43 Sikorsky: Karen Nutini
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes#/media/File:Howard_Hughes_S-43_Sikorsky.jpg

Howard Hughes 2: UNKNOWN
https://www.ocduk.org/ocd/history-of-ocd/howard-hughes/

Hughes AirWest First Flight: @HughesAirwest VIA X
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ECynwm_U0AYP__6?format=jpg&name=medium

New Livery: Ted Quackenbush
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-9-31%2C_Hughes_Airwest_AN0077665.jpg

New Livery 2: Richard Silagi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Airwest#/media/File:Hughes_Airwest_McDonnell_Douglas_DC-9-31_Silagi-1.jpg

Hughes AirWest Ad: Astralines VIA Ebay
https://www.ebay.com/itm/167824415429

Cubana de Aviacion 1: SDASM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubana_de_Aviaci%C3%B3n_Flight_493#/media/Fileouglas_DC-4_Pan_Am.jpg

Cubana de Aviacion 2: Unknown
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubana_de_Aviaci%C3%B3n_Flight_493#/media/File:Beechcraft_SNB-1_Kansan_front_quarter_view.jpg

1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision: National Park Service
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_Grand_Canyon_mid-air_collision#/media/File:Severed_tail_of_TWA_Flight_2.jpg

1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision: National Park Service: Trans World Airlines via Jon Proctor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_Grand_Canyon_mid-air_collision#/media/File:Trans_World_Airlines_-_TWA_Lockheed_L-1049A_Super_Constellation_Star_of_the_Seine_N6902C_in_flight.jpg

Vietnam War 1: War Memorial of Korea Open Archives
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fileperation_of_the_Fierce_Tiger_Division_of_the_Republic_of_Korea_Armed_Forces_in_Vietnam,_1967.webm

Vietnam War 2: USDoD / USN
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_F-4_Phantom_Joins_the_Fleet_1962_Mcdonnell_film_USS_Forrestal.webm

Martin-Baker 7A Ejection Seat: Nimbus227
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin-Baker_Mk.7#/media/File:Martin-Baker_Mk.7A.jpg

Jet Blue - Air Tanker: www.theguardian.com
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/14/jetblue-pilot-avoids-midair-collision-air-force-venezuela


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