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"Pinnacle Broken Arrow" incidents

July 4 2009 at 2:52 PM
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Some time back there was a thread about the H-bomb lost off of Tybee Island, GA. The media seems to "rediscover" this incident every few years and there will be several articles published before dropping back off of the screen. Anyway, as I was working on my free-fall nuke site I thought I would put together a quick rundown of known Broken Arrow incidents, or more properly "Pinnacle Broken Arrow". Broken Arrow is best described as the loss, destrucion, or damage to a nuclear warhead which does not create the danger of nuclear war. For the moment I did not not include loss, or damage in ICBM explosions and the loss of a of two nuke tipped Mk 45 torpedoes aboard the USS Scorpion.

Broken Arrow Incidents

A/C Date Location Weapon Event Fate of weapon(s)
B-29 April 11, 1950 Kirtland AFB Mk 4 Controlled flight into terrain Destroyed
B-29 August 5, 1950 Travis AFB Crashed on landing Destroyed
B-50 July 13, 1950 Stall crash Destroyed
B-50 December 10, 1950 Bomb jettisoned Destroyed
B-36 February 13, 1950 Pacific Bomb jettisoned Destroyed
B-36 May 22, 1957 Kirtland AFB Mk 17 Accidental jettison Destroyed
B-47 March 10, 1956 Mediterranean 2 X ? Aircraft disappeared over the Med Lost
B-47 November 11, 1957 Accident on takeoff recovered damaged
B-47 January 31, 1958 Crash on takeoff Destroyed
B-47 February 2, 1958 Tybee Beach, GA Weapon jettisoned following a midair collison. Lost
B-47 March 11, 1958 Florence, SC Accidental jettison Destroyed
B-47 November 4, 1958 Crash on takeoff Destroyed
B-47 November 26, 1958 Fire while a/c was standing armed alert Destroyed
B-52 October 15, 1959 Hardinsberg, KY 2 X ? Collision with tanker Both recovered, one damaged
B-52 January 24, 1961 Goldsboro, NC 2 X ? Broke up inflight One recovered
B-52 March 14, 1961 Uba City, CA 2 X ? Fuel starvation Both recovered
B-52 January 13, 1964 Cumberland, MD 2 X ? Broke up inflight Both recovered
B-52 January 17, 1966 Palomares, Spain 4 X Mk28-RI Collision with tanker
2 recovered,2 destroyed
B-52 January 21, 1968 Thule, Greenland 4 X Mk28-RI Crashed on landing Destroyed
B-58 December 8, 1964 Bunker Hill AFB 4 X B-43, 1 X W-39 Taxi accident Destroyed
F-100 January 18, 1959 PACAF Mk 7 Caught Fire during fueling Destroyed
A-4 December 5, 1965 Pacific 1 X ? Aircraft rolled from deck of carrier Lost


These are all fairly well documented. Makes one wonder what incidents the USSR had.

The list was added to this site while I was adding details and correcting the inevitable errors.

http://www.angelfire.com/dc/jinxx1/Nukes/Nukes.html



CB

http://www.angelfire.com/dc/jinxx1/Desrt_Wings.html

 
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