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After descending through solid cloud cover 90 miles southwest of Oran, to begin the second refueling at 14,000 feet (4,300 m), B-47E serial number 52-534, [1] ceased communication with the KC-97 tanker aircraft. [3] The unarmed aircraft was transporting two capsules of nuclear weapons material in carrying cases. A nuclear detonation was not ...
These plans went awry on June 8, 1966, when the second XB–70 crashed following a midair collision with NASA's F–104N chase plane. After 33 research flights following the mid–air collision, the remaining XB–70A was flown to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base on February 4, 1969, for museum display. [54] North American YF-93. Fixed Wing ...
The B-52G began its mission from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina, carrying four B28FI Mod 2 Y1 thermonuclear bombs on a Cold War airborne alert mission named Operation Chrome Dome. The flight plan took the aircraft east across the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea towards the European borders of the Soviet Union before ...
The second strike, at 52 seconds after liftoff, knocked the onboard guidance platform offline. Four temperature sensors on the outside of the Lunar Module were burnt out and four measuring devices in the reaction control system failed temporarily. Fuel cell power was restored about four minutes later.
After the collision, the captain of Flight 575 determined that his DC-9 could not remain airborne, and attempted to land back on the runway. When he did, the plane's two remaining landing gear collapsed rearward, and the DC-9 skidded on its belly off Runway 27L, across a grassy area, and onto Runway 32L, where it came to rest.
[1] [4] With landing gear down and full flaps, the plane dropped quickly but too far left of the runway. [5] [6] See turned on his afterburner to increase power while pulling up and turning hard right. [7] Seconds later, at 8:58 a.m. CST, [4] the plane struck the roof of McDonnell Building 101 on the northeast side of the airport. It lost its ...
1931 Jinan plane crash; 1946 Railway Air Services Dakota crash; 1954 BOAC Lockheed Constellation crash; 1956 Cairo TAI Douglas DC-6 crash; 1970 Stockholm Spantax Convair CV-990 crash; 1974 EgyptAir Tupolev Tu-154 crash; 1975 Agadir Royal Air Maroc Boeing 707 crash; 1979 Interflug Ilyushin Il-18 crash; 1983 Madrid Airport runway collision
The 1957 crash was discussed on the May 19, 1957, episode of The CBS Radio Workshop (entitled "Heaven Is In the Sky"). [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The program described when and how both planes took off from their respective airfields, and included discussion of how the Pacoima Junior High School was having the 7th-grade students outside for exercise.