| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | April 12, 1973 |
| Time: | 15:00 |
| Location: | Sunnyvale, California |
| Operator: | Military - U.S. Navy / NASA |
| Flight #: | ? |
| Route: | ? |
| AC Type: | Lockheed P-3C / Convair CV-990-30A-5 |
| Registration: | 157332/N711NA |
| cn / ln: | 5547 / 1 |
| Aboard: | 17 (passengers:? crew:?) |
| Fatalities: | 16 (passengers:? crew:?) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | A Navy P-3C collided with a NASA research jet as it prepared to land at Moffett Naval Air Station. A ground controller mistakenly gave both planes permission to land on the same runway and the NASA plane settled on top of the P-3, 300 ft. off the ground. Both planes crashed onto a golf course. Five aboard the P-3 and 11 aboard the Convair were killed. |
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