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Due to buffeting stresses, [2] the stabilizer shaft broke [1] and the B-52's vertical stabilizer came off the plane. It was found 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from where the plane struck the mountain side. [4] With the loss of the vertical stabilizer, the aircraft had lost its directional stability and rolled uncontrollably.
The vertical stabilizer is the fixed vertical surface of the empennage. A vertical stabilizer or tail fin [1] [2] is the static part of the vertical tail of an aircraft. [1] The term is commonly applied to the assembly of both this fixed surface and one or more movable rudders hinged to it. Their role is to provide control, stability and trim ...
The 1964 Savage Mountain B-52 crash was a U.S. military nuclear accident in which a Cold War bomber's vertical stabilizer broke off in winter storm turbulence. [3] The two nuclear bombs being ferried were found "relatively intact in the middle of the wreckage", according to a later U.S. Department of Defense summary, [4] and after Fort Meade's 28th Ordnance Detachment secured them, [5] the ...
The flight control stick remained attached to the installation area while the top of the rudder and vertical stabilizers were found bent 90 degrees to the right.
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported the vertical stabilizer was rendered unusable after the plane struck a tree. It was a horizontal stabilizer that was damaged. Show ...
A "Broken Arrow" incident: On 13 January 1964, the vertical stabilizer broke off B-52D (tail number 55‑0060, call sign "Buzz 14") causing a crash on Savage Mountain in western Maryland. After an Operation Chrome Dome mission to Europe, the aircraft was being ferried from Westover AFB to Turner AFB, in Albany, Georgia. While cruising at about ...
Loss of vertical stabilizer 1963-01-30 1963 B-52 crash in New Mexico USA: New Mexico: B-52 Stratofortress: Unknowingly exceeded design capability 2 Near Mora: [7] loss of vertical stabilizer [8] 1964-01-04 1964 B-57 crash USA: Dayton: NRB-57 Canberra: Mis-management of fuel system, causing CofG to be beyond its safe rearward limit 2 Both wings ...
The aircraft performance study indicated that when the vertical stabilizer finally detached, the aerodynamic loads caused by the first officer's actions produced 203,000 pounds-force (900 kilonewtons) of force on the rudder, meaning that the vertical stabilizer did not fail until far in excess of the 100,000 lbf (440 kN) of force defined by the ...