1966 - Color, Spain: Aircraft Salvage Operation. Feb-Mar66 (Atomic Search)
Palomares, Spain
On 17Jan66 a SAC B-52 carrying four B28 thermonuclear (hydrogen) bombs collided in mid-air w/ KC-135 tanker while refueling. 3 bombs were found on shore, high explosives in two had detonated on impact scattering plutonium dust over several hundred acres. After 80 days the fourth bomb was found.
Reel description:
08:11:26 View from bow of SS Privateer (Merchant Ship) heading toward the Aluminaut seen on surface w/ open ocean behind; Aluminaut on surface w/ rubber boat approaching. Rubber boat returns to SS Privateer; crew at edge of ship head headphones.
08:14:32 Aluminaut on surface, submerges. Man w/ headphones smoking; CU of electronic instrument.
Communications; US Navy; Naval Ships; International Incident; Searching; Aftermath; 1960s; Radiation Hazard;
NOTE: On 17Jan66 a SAC B-52 carrying four B28 thermonuclear (hydrogen) bombs collided in mid-air w/ KC-135 tanker while refueling. 3 bombs were found on shore, high explosives in two had detonated on impact scattering plutonium dust over several hundred acres. After 80 days the fourth bomb was found.
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1966 - Color, Spain: Aircraft Salvage Operation. Feb-Mar66 (Atomic Search) Palomares, Spain On 17Jan66 a SAC B-52 carrying four B28 thermonuclear (hydrogen) bombs collided in mid-air w/ KC-135 tanker while refueling. 3 bombs were found on shore, high explosives in two had detonated on impact scattering plutonium dust over several hundred acres. After 80 days the fourth bomb was found. Reel description: 08:11:26 View from bow of SS Privateer (Merchant Ship) heading toward the Aluminaut seen on surface w/ open ocean behind; Aluminaut on surface w/ rubber boat approaching. Rubber boat returns to SS Privateer; crew at edge of ship head headphones. 08:14:32 Aluminaut on surface, submerges. Man w/ headphones smoking; CU of electronic instrument. Communications; US Navy; Naval Ships; International Incident; Searching; Aftermath; 1960s; Radiation Hazard; NOTE: On 17Jan66 a SAC B-52 carrying four B28 thermonuclear (hydrogen) bombs collided in mid-air w/ KC-135 tanker while refueling. 3 bombs were found on shore, high explosives in two had detonated on impact scattering plutonium dust over several hundred acres. After 80 days the fourth bomb was found.