1966 - Color, Spain: Aircraft Salvage Operation, 27Jan-01Feb66 (Atomic Search)
Palomares, Spain
Slate: 31Jan66 Salvaged pieces of aircraft found on 26Jan66. CU of various pieces for on 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th & 31st. Includes parts of kit bag, instruction manuals, badly burned pieces of wreckage. Aluminum tubing. Larger pieces laying on sand.
10:04:33 Plotting board of where finds have been located & dates.
10:05:25 Slate: 01Feb66 Flatbed trailer of large wreckage hauled away followed by dump truck. More wreckage on sand. Wreckage pulled from trailer by wrecker. Numbers on plane visible. Wheels, engines,
10:10:23 Slate: 01Feb66 Men on beach signaling LCM to shore & beaching. Divers off, rubber boat & dive tanks on board.
Communications; US Navy; Naval Ships; International Incident; Searching; Near Miss; Aftermath; Nuclear Aviation Accident; 1960s;
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, 27Jan-01Feb66 (Atomic Search) Palomares, Spain Slate: 31Jan66 Salvaged pieces of aircraft found on 26Jan66. CU of various pieces for on 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th & 31st. Includes parts of kit bag, instruction manuals, badly burned pieces of wreckage. Aluminum tubing. Larger pieces laying on sand. 10:04:33 Plotting board of where finds have been located & dates. 10:05:25 Slate: 01Feb66 Flatbed trailer of large wreckage hauled away followed by dump truck. More wreckage on sand. Wreckage pulled from trailer by wrecker. Numbers on plane visible. Wheels, engines, 10:10:23 Slate: 01Feb66 Men on beach signaling LCM to shore & beaching. Divers off, rubber boat & dive tanks on board. Communications; US Navy; Naval Ships; International Incident; Searching; Near Miss; Aftermath; Nuclear Aviation Accident; 1960s; 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.