Notable accidents
- On 6 June 1971, Hughes Airwest Flight 706, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31 collided in mid-air with a United States Marine Corps F-4B Phantom above the San Gabriel Mountains, while en route from Los Angeles International Airport to Salt Lake City. All 49 on board the DC-9 and one of the crew on the F-4 were killed.
- On 9 August 1974, a Royal Air Force Phantom FGR2 was involved in a fatal collision with a civilian PA-25-235 Pawnee crop-sprayer over Norfolk, England.
- On 21 March 1987, Captain Dean Paul Martin (son of entertainer Dean Martin), a pilot in the 163d Tactical Fighter Group of the California Air National Guard, crashed his F-4C into San Gorgonio Mountain, California shortly after departure from March AFB. Both Martin and his weapons system officer (WSO) were killed.
- On 7 January 1986, a Royal Air Force Phantom FGR2 was hit by uncontrollable oscillations during a low-level intercept exercise with 3 other aircraft over Buckden Pike, North Yorkshire, England. The pilot, Flight Lieutenant Ian Ferguson, ejected when the aircraft was 250ft AGL travelling at a ground speed of around 600mph, his navigator ejecting roughly 3 seconds later, making it the lowest and fastest ejection in the history of the RAF at the time. Both men survived.
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