Seconds from Safety: The Moment Hughes Airwest Flight 706 Was Torn Apart #planes #pilots | MenTour Pilot

The pilot wanted to give his passengers a spectacular view of a legendary ocean liner, but the plane’s slight detour resulted in unimaginable tragedy. Learn more about Proteus Airlines Flight 706, tonight at 8 on Air Disasters. http://bit.ly/2JH1Q95 | Smithsonian Channel

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