What the records say
- When
- 5 Aug 1950
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 38.27° N, 121.95° W
- Description
- aviation incident in California, United States
Placed at the coordinates of its English Wikipedia article.
1950 Fairfield-Suisun Boeing B-29 crash
Aviation incident in California, United States
Northeast of San Francisco, California, on 5 August 1950, a United States Air Force Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber carrying a Mark 4 nuclear bomb crashed shortly after takeoff from Fairfield-Suisun Air Force Base with 20 men on board. Twelve men were killed in the crash, including the commander of the 9th Bombardment Wing, Brigadier General Robert F.
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