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1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision - Wikipedia During a night practice exercise, an F-86 fighter plane collided with the B-47 bomber carrying the large weapon The bomb was jettisoned to help prevent a crash and explosion After several unsuccessful searches, the weapon was declared lost in Wassaw Sound off the shores of Tybee Island
For 50 Years, Nuclear Bomb Lost in Watery Grave - NPR On Feb 5, 1958, a B-47 bomber dropped a 7,000-pound nuclear bomb into the waters off Tybee Island, Ga , after it collided with another Air Force jet Fifty years later, the bomb -- which has
Uncovering the Lost Tybee Bomb - TrendingAmerican While the crew, including Colonel Howard Richardson and Lieutenant Clarence Stewart, survived the ordeal, the bomb vanished beneath the expansive sea The collision occurred on February 5, 1958, marking a chilling chapter in the Cold War narrative
The Saga of the Tybee Bomb - Garden Gun When armed with its nuclear capsule—a device containing plutonium, which triggers the nuclear explosion—the bomb was capable of producing a fireball with a radius of 1 2 miles and causing severe structural damage and third-degree burns for ten times that distance
Tybee Islands Lost Nuclear Bomb Is Still at Risk of Detonating - Air Mail The nuclear bomb has been languishing somewhere off the Georgia coast since 1958, when a B-47 bomber plane intentionally dropped it in the ocean after an accidental midair collision during a nighttime training exercise