Airplane Crash - Sunnyvale, California 04/12/1973
Details of airplane crash/ shootdown - Sunnyvale, California
| Date | 04/12/1973 |
| Time | 15:00 |
| Location | Sunnyvale, California |
| Operator | Military - U.S. Navy / NASA |
| Type | Lockheed P-3C / Convair CV-990-30A-5 |
| Registration | 157332/N711NA |
| Cn/In | 5547 / 1 |
| Aboard | 17 |
| Fatalities | 16 |
| 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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