What the records say
- When
- 13 Feb 1950
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 56.02° N, 128.62° W
- Description
- USAAF crash and loss of nuclear bomb
- Deaths
- 5
1950 British Columbia B-36 crash
USAAF crash and loss of nuclear bomb
Sometime after midnight on 14 February 1950, a Convair B-36B, United States Air Force Serial Number 44-92075 assigned to the US 7th Bombardment Wing, Heavy at Carswell Air Force Base in Texas, crashed in northwestern British Columbia on Mount Kologet after jettisoning a Mark 4 nuclear bomb. This was the first such nuclear weapon loss in history.
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