Air Disasters
Season 5 Episode 2 - Speed Trap
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.
Episodes in Season 5
Fight to the Death
45 min
Speed Trap
45 min
Lost in Translation
45 min
Tragedy on the Potomac
45 min
Queens Catastrophe
45 min
Into the Eye of the Storm
45 min
Massacre Over the Mediterranean
45 min
Imperfect Pitch
45 min
Getting Out Alive
45 min
Terror in Paradise
45 min
Titanic in the Sky
45 min