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The 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash was an accident that occurred near Goldsboro, North Carolina, United States, on 24 January 1961. A Boeing B-52 Stratofortress carrying two 3.8- megaton Mark 39 nuclear bombs broke up in mid-air, dropping its nuclear payload in the process.
At least three people died in the fiery crash, considered “one of the closest near-disasters of the Cold War.” Nuclear bombs fell on North Carolina in 1961. The state was one step from disaster
A Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, 59-2576, of the 341st Bombardment Squadron, 4038th Strategic Wing, [73] Dow Air Force Base, Maine, exploded in flight at 2115 hrs. with the wreckage falling near Denton, North Carolina. Debris was scattered over a ten-mile (16 km) area, starting fires in woods and fields.
US Airways Flight 1549 was a commercial flight from LaGuardia Airport in New York City to Charlotte/Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina, that on January 15, 2009, made an emergency water landing in the Hudson River about six minutes after takeoff. USAir Flight 405 crashed during takeoff from LaGuardia Airport on March 22 ...
ČSA Flight 511 (July 1961) ČSA Flight 511 (March 1961) D. List of accidents and incidents involving the DC-3 in 1961; 1961 Derby Aviation crash; F.
Five people were killed after a single-engine plane they were on board crashed in North Carolina while it was trying to land, officials said.. On Saturday, at around 5:55 p.m. local time, a Cirrus ...
Armed with a revolver, Albert Charles Cadon hijacks Pan American World Airways Flight 501 – a Douglas DC-8 flying from Mexico City, Mexico, to Guatemala City, Guatemala, with 81 people on board – and forces it to fly him to Havana, Cuba, as a protest against the failure of the United States Government to support the independence movement in ...
Three people are dead after a plane crash Monday in McDowell County, North Carolina. The plane was discovered in the Brackett Town Road area off Vein Mountain Road, officials said.