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Accident; Date: 21 January 1968: Summary: In-flight fire leading to crew ejecting: Site: 7.5 miles (12.1 km) west of Thule Air Base (formerly Pituffik), Greenland 1]: Aircraft; Aircraft type: B-52G Stratofortress: Operator: 380th Strategic Bomb Wing, Strategic Air Command, United States Air Force: Registration: 58-0188: Flight origin: Plattsburgh Air Force Base: Stopover: Baffin Bay (holding ...
1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash This page was last edited on 8 May 2020, at 17:00 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4 ...
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]
1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash; U. 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident; Y. 1961 Yuba City B-52 crash This page was last edited on 27 March 2013 ...
1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash This page was last edited on 21 May 2024, at 01:38 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
A fire broke out in the navigator's compartment of a USAF B-52 near Thule Air Base, Greenland. The bomber crashed 7 miles (11 km) from the airbase, rupturing the bomber's bomb bay and causing the conventional explosives in the four B28FI thermonuclear bombs to detonate, fragmenting and spreading the radioactive primary and secondary components ...
The 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash was an accident on 21 January 1968, involving a United States Air Force B-52 bomber. The aircraft was carrying four hydrogen bombs on a Cold War "Chrome Dome" alert mission over Baffin Bay when a cabin fire forced the crew to abandon the aircraft before they could carry out an emergency landing at Thule Air Base.
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