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Broken Arrow incidents. The US Department of Defense has officially recognized at least 32 "Broken Arrow" incidents from 1950 to 1980. [6] Examples of these events include: 1950 British Columbia B-36 crash. 1956 B-47 disappearance. 1958 Mars Bluff B-47 nuclear weapon loss incident. 1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision.
1 Pilot (LTJG Douglas M. Webster)[2] The 1965 Philippine Sea A-4 crash was a Broken Arrow incident in which a United States Navy Douglas A-4E Skyhawk attack aircraft carrying a nuclear weapon fell into the sea off Japan from the aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga. [3][4] The aircraft, pilot and weapon were never recovered. [5]
The Damascus Titan missile explosion (also called the Damascus accident[1]) was a 1980 U.S. nuclear weapons incident involving a Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). The incident occurred on September 18–19, 1980, at Missile Complex 374-7 in rural Arkansas when a U.S. Air Force LGM-25C Titan II ICBM loaded with a 9-megaton W-53 ...
The Broken Arrow of Camelot: An Analysis of the 1961 B-52 Crash and Loss of the Nuclear Weapon in Faro, North Carolina (Thesis). East Carolina University. Knaack, Marcelle Size (1988). Post-World War II Bombers, 1945–1973 (PDF). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 978-0160022609. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 November 2011
The Palomares incident occurred on 17 January 1966, when a B-52G bomber of the United States Air Force 's Strategic Air Command collided with a KC-135 tanker during mid-air refueling at 31,000 feet (9,450 m) over the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Spain. The KC-135 was destroyed when its fuel load ignited, killing all four crew members.
Broken Arrow – The Declassified History of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Accidents. Lulu. ISBN 978-1-4357-0361-2 "Broken Arrow – Palomares, Spain" (PDF). USAF Nuclear Safety. 52. Directorate of Nuclear Safety, United States Air Force. September–October 1966. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 November 2011
Broken Arrow (nuclear), an accidental nuclear event involving nuclear weapons, warheads, or components which does not create the risk of nuclear war. "Broken Arrow", a code phrase notably used during the 1965 Battle of Ia Drang to indicate an American combat unit was in danger of being overrun. Broken Arrow Skyrace, a trail running event in ...
Sidi Slimane Air Base was the location of a Broken Arrow nuclear incident on 31 January 1958. A USAF B-47 carrying an armed nuclear weapon experienced a wheel casting failure during simulated takeoff. The bomber's tail hit the runway, rupturing a fuel tank and igniting a fire.