What the records say
- When
- 13 Jan 1964
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 39.57° N, 79.08° W
- Description
- Nuclear bomber accident
- Deaths
- 3
- Cause
- breakdown
1964 Savage Mountain B-52 crash
Nuclear bomber accident
The 1964 Savage Mountain B-52 crash was a U.S. military nuclear accident in which a Cold War bomber's vertical stabilizer broke off in winter storm turbulence. The two nuclear bombs being ferried were found "relatively intact in the middle of the wreckage", according to a later U.S.
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