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While taking off from U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield in heavy rain on an Operation Arc Light mission on 19 July, a B-52D (tail number 55-0676) crashed and caught fire when it overran the runway on takeoff. The pilot and co-pilot had different readings on their airspeed indicators, so they decided to abort the takeoff.
After losing 1,000 feet (300 m) of altitude, Holland regained control of the aircraft. Holland also regularly and illegally parked his car in a "no parking" zone near the base headquarters building. [3] [11] During a 19 May 1991 air show at Fairchild, Holland was the command pilot of the B-52 aerial-demonstration flight.
The fire resulting from the aborted takeoff ignited the aircraft's fuel and detonated the 30,000-pound (13,600 kg) bomb load of twenty-four 500 lb (230 kg) bombs, (twelve under each wing) and forty two 750 lb (340 kg) bombs inside the bomb bay and caused a blast so powerful that it created an immense crater under the burning aircraft some thirty feet (9 m) deep and sixty feet (18 m) across.
The bomber, assigned to the 20th Bomb Squadron, was, with its crew, on temporary duty at Andersen as part of a four-month rotation. [5] The bomber's unit had replaced Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit bombers which had been grounded following the loss of one of them on 23 February that year .
The aircraft that lifted off that March morning from Barksdale Air Force Base in northwestern Louisiana was built by Boeing in Wichita, Kansas, and delivered to the Air Force in early March of 1962.
A Chinese fighter jet came within 10 feet (three metres) of an American B-52 bomber flying over the South China Sea, nearly causing an accident, the US military has said. In the night intercept ...
B-52 54-2666. The B-52C used on the mission of Thursday January 7, 1971, with the call sign "Hiram 16", had been built in the summer of 1956 as one of thirty-five B-52C bombers. From 1952 to 1962 a total of 744 B-52s of all models were built.
The Boeing B-52H Stratofortress is America’s primary strategic bomber, taking part in every US war since Vietnam. ... The last B-52 rolled off the production line in 1962. The strategic bombers ...