Reading this thread reminded me that, around 1966, there was either a P-3 or an Electra completely submerged just off the end of one of the runways at SFO. Anyone know the story on that one?
Maybe you’re thinking of the crash of a P3 April 12, 1973 onto the Sunnyvale Municipal Golf Course next to CA-101. The P3 was doing touch-and-goes after a mission off Big Sur. They collided with a NASA Convair 990. 16 of 17 people on the two aircraft died.
The safety record of the P-3 operations at Moffett was excellent. This collision was the first and only crash of a P-3 near the airfield between the early 1960s and 1994 when the Navy decommissioned Moffett.