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| Date: | Wednesday 8 May 2002 |
| Time: | 16:30 |
| Type: |  North American Rockwell T-39N Sabreliner |
| Owner/operator: | United States Navy |
| Registration: | 165525 |
| MSN: | 282-100 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1972 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT12A-6A Turbo Wasp |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Other fatalities: | 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 64 km S off Pensacola, FL [Gulf of Mexico] -
 Atlantic Ocean
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Pensacola NAS, FL (NPA/KNPA) |
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.
Sources:
Reuters
Location
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; ?; July 1979
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