What the records say
- When
- 23 Sep 1954
- Kind
- Explosion
- Coordinates
- 49.92° N, 6.49° E
- Description
- industrial disaster in Germany
- Deaths
- 34
1954 Bitburg explosion
Industrial disaster in Germany
The devastating Bitburg tank explosion took place on 23 September 1954 at the then NATO air base near the city Bitburg, in the municipality of Niederstedem, Germany. The explosion took place in an underground storage tank containing JP-4, a military jet fuel blend.
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- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Bei der Tanklagerexplosion bei Niederstedem kommen 29 Menschen ums Leben”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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