255K views · 1.3K reactions | #OTD in 1971 - Moments after taking off from LAX, Hughes Airwest Flight 706 collides with a military F-4 Phantom jet and crashes into the San Gabriel Mountains. ️✈️ Watch the FULL EPISODE on YouTube ⬇️ https://youtu.be/hkG9FQl6Ni0 | Mayday / Air Crash Investigation / Air Disasters | Facebook

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. 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 Ai