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📹 Moffett Field Air Tragedy – The Story of Sole Survivor, Bruce Mallibert
On Thursday, April 12, 1973, a Navy P-3C Orion and a Convair 990 operated by NASA collided on approach to Moffett Field in …
I was 12 and lived on the approach path to Moffett. My entire childhood is filled with the sights and sounds of P-3’s flying over the house every 15-30 minutes. The sound of the engines would resonate with a string on my mom’s piano. I remember this day like it was yesterday. It’s still brings me to tears when I think about it. So sorry for all those people.
I was an Air Traffic Controller at Moffett Field. A sad day it was. Later, I got to meet Bruce and hear his side of this tragic story. The Navy ended the practice of parallel runway operations and the FAA increased the distance required for parallel runway centerline operations both of which would have ensured that these a/c were not in the same place at the same time. God Bless Bruce and God Bless the families of those lost.
My father worked on the NASA plane. He was not aboard that day. All day long, and I mean ALL day, I answered the phone, “Dad’s alive. Hello.” Even 45 years later it gives me chills. My father said there was one man who would have been aboard but something wasn’t right with his experiment, so he stayed for the next flight. Dad went to many, many funerals.
Thank you Mr. Nothhaft for making this very well done article…I was 10 years old when I witnessed this crash and only now, after 43 years, do I get to hear the whole story…it was quite telling of Mr. Mallibert saying ’17’ ended up dieing that day (referring to the later suicide of air traffic controler) …I found it quite touching that Mr. Mallibert reached out to him like that and he was right; accidents happen.
I’m pretty sure Bruce and I went to Navy Boot Camp together in 1969, (NTC San Diego Company 499). Horrible accident and it’s inspirational to hear how he was able to handle the accident, his injuries which plague him to this day. The fact that he reached out to the air traffic controlled after the accident is a testament to just what kind of an individual Bruce is. Proud he was a shipmate of mine.
Thank you for this article, I was a squadron mate and friend of Bruce. I was in crew 7 at the time of the accident. Bruce and I were both AW’s in rating and worked out of the AW shop, and I had flown with Bruce, him being an AW3 and me an AW2 . I was in VP-47 1969-1975. I was just looking through my 1973 squadron deployment book. It has a nice memorial for the crew/thanksgiving tribute to Bruce . I still have my Moffett field Times with the photos and story. It was and still is a very tender part of my life. Good to see Bruce is doing well and continuing to live… Dale Phillips (VP-47 69-75)
Thanks to Bruce and all of the people that helped make this article. I was an ET working out of the tower. At the time of this moment in my naval career I was in charge of the base transmitter site. I knew many of the AT’s at Moffett. I have several stills of the aftermath of this accident. I think that being able to watch this article has brought a certain amount of closure for many of the people who were involved in the moment and the aftermath. God spared Bruce. God bless him and the souls of those lost.
I was in elementary school in Cupertino at that time and remember hearing of this accident. My home was directly under the approach path of the many planes landing at Moffett Field. I loved perusal them for many years, the P-3 Orions, cargo planes, F-4 Phantoms and others. My heart goes out to Bruce and to the families of those who perished.
I too, appreciate this article. I served there for 22 years in the fire service, albeit long after this tragedy, yet rumors were still aloft regarding the how and why of this event. It cleared up many “stories” from that tragic day. One of the rumors (sadly) was that a crash truck from Moffett had run over this remarkable survivor. I am so happy to learn that this was not the case, and that our brothers in Sunnyvale avoided the shrouded survivor. I am sorry to have just learned about the ATC who took his own life. A tragedy, all of it.
Thank you for this article. My husbands father was William Russey. He died 5 months before my husband, William, was born. This is the only footage we have ever seen besides newspaper clippings. We have two sons, one of which is a William also. It has meant alot to be able to share this with them. Thank you again.
I remember this day. I was 8 years old. I never will forget. I remember the black smoke all the way from Cupertino/San Jose just off Hwy 9 about 10-15 miles away I went to Calabazas Elementary/Meyerholtz. God bless the crew and the families of the men and women who lost their lives… And Bruce may God be with you.
I finished my 4 year Navy enlistment with VP-47 one month before this accident. I have several specific memories related to Bruce, and the crew and aircraft that were lost., First, on the day I was saying goodbye to everybody, I remember best the comment that Bruce made to me. He said “Good luck to you”. and “I wish it was me getting out”. I don’t remember what anybody else said. The second was that RD-5 157332 was the last aircraft I had worked on as an avionics technician / in flight tech. The third was that one of my final flights was on RD-5 as they flew me down to San Diego to work on an aircraft that had lost all communications and was thus stranded there until it could be fixed. By the time we reached the North Island base, the crew had figured out a work around, and we simply did a touch and go at NORIS ans returned to Moffett. I had taken some nice photos of the beaches of the Silver Strand from that flight which was my final flight in RD-5. James McDowell was the very fine flight engineer on my final crew (Crew-1) in VP-47. I had been hired by Lockheed to work on the S-3 program and was driving from Texas toward Burbank to start the job when I heard about the accident on the radio news, I knew it was a VP-47 aircraft because they mentioned that Bruce Mallibert had survived the crash. On reporting to my job, I was told that an opening in the P-3 department had come available and it was offered to me instead of the S-3 assignment. Having already developed a great love for the P-3, I didn’t even have to think about it, I took the P-3 assignment, and have never regretted doing so.
I saw the NASA jet turn from its initial approach to the right runway to the left runway on a long final approach. As a pilot, I knew this was big trouble so got into my car (on Hwy 85) and drove like hell away from the golf course. I looked out my side window an saw the two planes collide with the P3 doing a vertical loop over the golf course and landing essentially nose first and exploding on impact. The Convair had its nose raised due to the impact with the tail of the P3 below it and it went into a stall over the golf course with engines spooling up). It began almost backing up on the golf course (like slow motion) and pancaked on ground contact. No fire initially, but the left wing tip was damaged and fuel caught fire and explosions followed on the left side of the plane and the fire quickly spread to the rest of the Convair. Rescue teams had difficulty getting on the golf course initially due to the fencing surrounding the golf course. You could see 50 miles with no clouds in the clear sky. Tragic. RIP to all involved and thanks for Mr. Nothhaft for your comments and this article. PS: The Convair’s had doors that in normal times required significant effort to open. As a ticket agent at TWA in LA, I would on occasion have to put two people on the door handles of these planes to open them.
I was a mechanic in VP-40, and witnessed this crash from the end of the Hangar. Saw Bruce once when he came back to Moffit Field, but wondered how he fared, or if he ever walked again. Sorry to hear about the air traffic controller, that had to be tough. I never knew the details of how this situation transpired, just figured it was human error on someones part. Thanks for doing this article, it cleared up questions about something that comes up every once in a while when remembering my past.
My husband was coming home on the highway that ran along the golf course. He actually saw the planes collide and crash. He saw the plane on the bottom lifting up and striking the one just above him (as I recall his telling me). He said they both immediately fell like rocks. He was in shock and pulled to the side of the road and ran up to the fence. He stood there and helplessly prayed over the wreckage. From where he was he didn’t see anything but wreckage. He passed away in 2013 but I know it haunted him all his days. I am grateful that God spared Bruce’s life, every life is precious. I will always hold all of those who passed away that day, those who tried to help them and those who witnessed the horrible event… and Bruce in my prayers.
This is so unbelieveable to see this article after many years. (48 years Feb 2021) I was 10 years old when this happened on 13 April, ( I was turning 11 years old on 27 April ) What I remember very clearly was that my dad at the time was working in what he called the “blue glass building” which was obviously the NASA Ames. My dad was working there that day. I was at school the day this happened. I moved around alot due to my dad getting transferred alot due to his job with NASA, so the school I was attending at the time had a very large field between another school. I just do not remember the name of that school anymore. I was born partially deaf, so I had to walk to this other school for speech therapy. When walking through this large field, I had a clear view of that “blue glass building” which must have been a few miles away. On that particular day I was walking through that large field and I was looking toward the direction where my dad worked and just so happened to see one plane pulling upward and getting rammed by another plane from behind ( in a 10 year old’s mind this might be fairly correct) I saw the explosion and crash then the smoke. I ran to the other school I was headed to and told my speech therapist right away. All she could do was watch. When I went home, I told my dad what I saw. He couldnt believe I witnessed this tragedy. I learned later that my dad too traveled on the NASA plane from time to time and he told me the crash ended up at a golf course. One detail I do remember was that a golfer on the ground had suffered a heart attack, I assume because he saw it and / or he was so close to this ordeal.
Thank you for this article my grandfather was is the Galileo that day Clayton Arthur Robinson I was not born yet but have a lot of pictures of what he did and the plane and clippings of that day but never seen article of that day may all rest in peace and thank you Bruce for your story and your courage you are a true inspiration to all God bless you
I remember growing up in Sunnyvale. I would always run outside to see the planes fly very low over my parents house. I always wondered if any accident had ever occurred at moffett field. Thank you a lot for posting this article. It means a lot to me growing up with moffett field. And may God be with all the people that passed that day.
Kind of shocked that I’m only hearing about this accident for the first time today! I came across it researching airborne observatories because the Convair was used as the “Galileo Airborne Observatory” starting in 1965; it was the first infrared telescope on a plane intended to do observations from the stratosphere, well above most of the water in the atmosphere that absorbs most infrared light. It did many observations of comets, solar eclipses, and investigations of the atmospheric compositions of Mars and Venus.
I’ve lived no more than 3 miles from Moffett for most of my life and I’ve always watched the planes fly in and out since I was a kid. I also belong to a local modeling group and my hobby is to build model aircraft from crash sites that I’ve visited, of which this was one of them, and donate them to the nearest air museums as tributes to those that passed. My eventual goal was to build models of the aircraft involved, and donate them to the Moffett Museum near Hangar 1. But my lack of photos and visual reference from the accident has made it a bit difficult for me to accurately recreate a model of either aircraft from that exact time in history (since both aircraft, especially Galileo, had numerous schemes throughout their careers). I was wondering if you had any more footage or photographs I could maybe get a hold of to accurately make the models? It you did, that would be of great help.
I was standing in line with other school children at Sunnyvale Christian School which was then located at the First Assembly of God at Mary and Iowa. We watched this accident happen. Later, Bruce and I attended the same church, Friendly Tabernacle, in Mountain View. He did not let the accident slow him down. Bruce, I hope you’re doing good!
I was near there that day. I worked at Spectra-Physics off Clyde and our parking lot at the back of the building went up to the fence of the golf course. Someone either felt or heard the crash, went outside to see the flames, came back into the plant and let us know something happened. I ran out the back of the plant down the parking lot up to the fence and could see the P-3 cockpit laying on it’s left side about 100 to 150 yards from the fence. About this same time I began dating a new girl at work. Her name was Juli Wade. Her older brother John Wade was a P-3 pilot and he was suppose to be captain on that plane that day, but for some reason I don’t remember now, he didn’t fly that day. A very lucky thing for him. I got to know him soon after and the 3 of us often went on motorcycle rides in the Santa Cruz mountains just southwest of there.
we could see the smoke from base housing when they crashed. Later someone told me the story of one of the golfers using his club iron trying to break a window, because he could see the crew member inside asking for help. I was in VP-50 and sat in the aft-observer seat, that Bruce was in, many times during touch and goes.