A B-36 crash in British Columbia in 1950

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When a B-36 crashed in British Columbia on February 13, 1950 , five crew members were killed. An atom bomb was also lost.

On February 13, 1950, the US Air Force long-range bomber of the type Convair B-36 took off for a training flight from Eielson Air Force Base . The destination was the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Wort . Three of the six engines caught fire. The crew detached the on board, non-core atomic bomb of the type Mark 4 ; it detonated conventionally in the air. The crew jumped off the plane; 12 of the 17 crew members survived. The B36 itself hit Mount Kologet in British Columbia . The intended destination had been a military airfield in Fort Worth , Texas , with the order to simulate an atomic bomb attack on San Francisco on the way there.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20100217083502/http://www.bclocalnews.com/lifestyles/83977347.html
  2. ↑ John M. Clearwater: The first one to get away Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November / December 2004

Coordinates: 56 ° 1 ′ 27.6 ″  N , 128 ° 37 ′ 11.9 ″  W.