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The weapons in the Yuba City crash were the same type of bombs as had been involved in the 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash a few weeks earlier, except they had been subjected to a safety modification that the Goldsboro weapons had not. The safety modification, designated Alt 197, replaced the older MC-722 Arm/Safe switch with the newer MC-1288 Arm ...
The Yuba City bus disaster was the second-worst bus disaster in U.S. history, exceeded only by the 1963 train-bus collision in Chualar, California, which claimed the lives of 32 Mexican farmworkers. In May 1996, on the twentieth anniversary of the accident, a memorial built near the water at the Martinez Marina was dedicated to the victims.
A woman was killed and a motorist hospitalized after their allegedly speeding SUV crashed into a light pole and burst into flames Wednesday in Yuba City, police said. Yuba City police officers ...
Oct. 30—A multi-vehicle crash on Sunday morning in Yuba City left at least one person dead and led to the hours-long closure of a busy city street, according to reporting by CBS13. At about 9:30 ...
The head-on collision was the deadliest incident involving drunk driving and the third-deadliest bus crash in U.S. history. Of the 67 people on the bus (counting the driver), there were 27 fatalities in the crash, the same number as the 1958 Prestonsburg bus disaster, and behind the 1976 Yuba City bus disaster (29) and 1963 Chualar bus crash (32).
Nov. 6—A man from Yuba City and a man from Oakland both died in separate accidents early Monday morning in both Yuba and Sutter counties, according to the California Highway Patrol. In Sutter ...
The crash killed eight of the nine crew on board; the co-pilot, Captain Joseph L. Church, parachuted to safety. The crash was believed to have been caused by overstressing the wings and/or airframe during an exercise designed to test the pilot's reflexes. This was the fourth crash involving a B-52 in eleven months. [5] [6] [7]
Oct. 31—The Yuba City Police Department provided details Tuesday on a multi-vehicle crash that took place on Sunday morning that resulted in at least one person's death, including confirmation ...