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[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0482]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Rescue team looks down on wreckage of Air West jetliner at bottom of gorge. Rescue workers worked their way along a rugged canyon Monday looking for bodies from the collision of a Hughes Air West airliner and a Marine Corps jet fighter."
Date: June 8, 1971
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0902]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tires Blow Out- A Continental Airlines DC-10 lies in a bed of foam past the end of the runway at Los Angeles International Airport, where it crashed Wednesday during takeoff for Hawaii after two tires blew out and a landing gear collapsed."
Date: March 2, 1978
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0888]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "LOS ANGELES, Feb. 8--FIREMEN BURNED IN FLASH FIRE-Firemen are engulfed in flame as airplane fuel and fumes are suddenly ignited while the attempt to rescue members of the crew of a crashed DC6 airplane in Los Angeles Sunday."
Date: February 8, 1976
Creator: Yaro, Boris
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0903]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Two passengers were killed and several others injured when this Continental Airline DC-10 crashed during takeoff from Los Angeles International Airport. The plane was bound for Hawaii. The nose gear failed during takeoff."
Date: March 2, 1978
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0480]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Wreckage of the Hughes Air West jetliner which collided with a Marine F4 Phantom jet 20 miles east of Los Angeles a week ago Sunday has been reassembled in mockup form for investigators. It was reported Wednesday that the tail and right wing of the Marine plane sliced through the airliner. The 2x4 placed diagonally above the sign indicates the position of the Phantom's vertical stabilizer at the moment of impact."
Date: June 17, 1971
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0901]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Survivor Aided-A survivor is helped away from the wreckage of a Continental Airlines DC-10 that crashed on takeoff from Los Angeles International Airport Wednesday. The plane, en route to Honolulu, had 183 people aboard."
Date: March 2, 1978
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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