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Jan 13, 2020 · In 1950, an American B-36 bomber on a peace-time training mission crashed over British Columbia, Canada carrying a Mark IV atomic bomb, a weapon comparable in size to the nuke dropped on Nagasaki...
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Nov 22, 2023 · In 1950, a USAF bomber lost a nuclear bomb over Canada during a test flight; it was the first "broken arrow" incident in history. The Convair B-36 Peacemaker aircraft was able to carry an atomic bomb without modifications, and its mission was simulating a nuclear attack.
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Sep 23, 2022 · The US military's first "broken arrow" incident occurred when a B-36 crew lost a Mark IV atomic bomb over the Canadian wilderness.
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May 10, 2017 · A mysterious fuel leak, which the crew found out as a refuelling plane approached, led to the broken arrow incident over North Carolina in 1961.
USAF Major Howard Robinson, the pilot of the B-47, lost control of the aircraft after the collision and it lost roughly 18,000 feet of altitude before control was regained. The bomber sustained heavy damage to its right wing and right outboard engine.
May 13, 2015 · The US Navy declared the incident a Broken Arrow, their code word for an accident involving a nuclear weapon. Hidden wreckage. Although the US government presumed this to be the conclusion of the Broken Arrow story, it was not the case.
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The fuel tanker detached its line from the B-25 and Tulloch banked the plane and turned the nose toward the coastline and Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, North Carolina. An eerie silence haunted the crew as their wounded ship droned over the North Carolinian countryside.
