"17 January 1966 B52 Palomares Spain. At 9.17 Am local time a B52G returning to Seymour Johnson AFB near Goldsboro North Carolina collided with a KC-135 Tanker from an airbase at Moron near Seville in south west Spain during a routine high altitude air refuelling operation at 31,000 ft over the Med, 245 miles south of Madrid when the B52 overran the fuelling boom on the KC 135. The boom penetrated the bombers fuselage just aft of the wing trailing edge, in effect breaking the aircraft’s back, causing the plane to pitch down and left. Both aircraft exploded and crashed spreading about 250 tons of wreckage over a wide area. All of the crew from the tanker died, four of the seven bomber crew also died. The B52 was on a standard SAC airborne alert mission and was carrying four unarmed MK28FI nuclear weapons, each with a yield of 1. 1Mt.Bomb No1 landed intact and was found eight hours after the crash. Bomb no2 was found the following morning, on impact a one point detonation of its primary occurred which ruptured the weapon and blew plutonium and plutonium oxide into the air and onto the ground. The explosion produced a crater six feet deep and 20 feet in diameter. Bomb no3 landed violently and also underwent a one point explosion, dispersing uranium, plutonium. Bomb no4 was blown by high winds for eight miles until it fell into the sea. The weapon still attached to the parachute descended to a depth of 2160 feet. It was salvaged intact on April 7th from a depth of 2850 feet 12 miles of the coast of Palomares. 1400 tons of slightly contaminated soil and vegetation from a 558 acre area were removed ."
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