What the records say
- When
- 24 Jan 1963
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 45.53° N, 69.43° W
- Description
- aviation accident
- Cause
- breakdown
1963 Elephant Mountain B-52 crash
Aviation accident in Maine, United States
On 24 January 1963 a United States Air Force Boeing B-52C Stratofortress with nine crew members on board lost its vertical stabilizer due to buffeting stresses during turbulence at low altitude and crashed on Elephant Mountain in Piscataquis County, Maine, United States, six miles (9.7 km) from Greenville. The pilot and the navigator survived the accident.
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