25 Season
275 Episode
Air Disasters - Season 5 Episode 2 Speed Trap
The disaster is only the beginning of the story.
On June 6, 1971, Hughes Airwest Flight 706, a Douglas DC-9-31, enroute from Los Angeles, California, to Salt Lake City, Utah, collided in mid-air with a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, of the U.S. Marine Corps, over the San Gabriel Mountains, near Duarte, California. The F-4 pilot and all 49 passengers and crew on board the civilian airliner died; the Radar Intercept Officer of the F-4 survived. Join the NTSB and military experts as they work together to uncover how a fighter jet could collide with a civilian airliner.
- Year: 2026
- Country: Canada
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Smithsonian Channel
- Keyword: airplane hijacking, airplane accident, airplane wreck, airplane crash, exploding airplane, airplane casualties, airplanes, aviation documentary, aviation disaster, air disaster
- Director: André Barro, Bernard Vaillot
- Cast: Stephen Bogaert


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