Accident description
Last updated: 19 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 08 MAY 2002 |
| Time: | 16:30 |
| Type: | North-American Rockwell T-39N Sabreliner |
| Operator: | United States Navy |
| Registration: | 165525 |
| C/n / msn: | 282-100 |
| First flight: | |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney JT12A-6A Turbo Wasp |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Collision casualties: | Fatalities: 3 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 64 km (40 mls) S off Pensacola, FL [Gulf of Mexico] (Atlantic Ocean)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Military training |
| Departure airport: | Pensacola NAS, FL (NPA/KNPA), United States of America |
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Two US Navy Sabreliners, 165522 and 165525, departed Pensacola on a training mission. Both aircraft collided. Rescue crews found two debris fields about six miles apart.
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N19HF ended up as 165525
This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
