What the records say
- When
- 21 Jan 1968
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 76.53° N, 69.28° W
- Description
- aviation accident
- Deaths
- 1
- Cause
- conflagration
1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash
1968 aviation accident
On 21 January 1968, an aircraft accident, sometimes known as the Thule affair or Thule accident, involving a United States Air Force (USAF) B-52 bomber occurred near Thule Air Base in the Danish territory of Greenland.
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- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash: A U.S. B-52 Stratofortress crashes in Greenland, discharging 4 nuclear bombs”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “accident de Thulé ; un bombardier B-52 de l’United States Air Force qui transporte quatre bombes à hydrogène s’écrase sur la banquise dans la baie North Star…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ВВС США потеряли в Гренландии атомную бомбу”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “米空軍機B52がグリーンランド沖に墜落、水爆4個が行方不明（チューレ空軍基地米軍機墜落事故）。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page