A B36 was on static display at Chanute AFB in Illinois when I was in tech school in 1973. Hugh plane. (This pic is not Chanute, BTW)
Posted on 11/28/2016 4:09:23 PM PST by BenLurkin
A metallic object discovered underwater off the coast of British Columbia and suspected of being a missing U.S. atomic bomb has now been identified as an industrial hunk of steel.
The Royal Canadian Navy used an underwater robot to check out the object, sitting on the ocean floor in about eight metres of water south of Prince Rupert.
Cmdr. Stephan Gresmak said military specialists determined the object was not an unexploded military munition. “It was safe and there was no danger,” said Gresmak who is with Joint Task Force Pacific.
“It was determined to be a metal part of a larger machine assembly and appears to be a piece of industrial equipment,” the Canadian Forces noted in a news release.
There was speculation the object, found by a scuba diver was either a Mark IV atomic bomb or part of the device lost in 1950. The warhead, which did not contain radioactive material, was jettisoned from a U.S. Air Force B-36 bomber after the plane caught fire.
The bomber crew parachuted from the burning aircraft; five were reported dead and 12 were rescued. The wreckage of the plane was later found on Mount Kologet in the BC interior, about 300 km northeast of where the crew bailed out.
The U.S. military later sent a team to recover equipment from the plane but the whereabouts of the atomic bomb has been the source of intense speculation and various theories over the decades.
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This is exactly what I would say if I nabbed a nuke.
Kinda like the “boating accident” in reverse.
So it was a non-nuclear nuke?
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"The B-36 Peacemaker would take off on Feb. 13, 1950, from Eielson Air Force Base in Fairbanks, Alaska, fly south off the Canadian coast, on a simulated bombing run over San Francisco before flying home to Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth."
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Alaska and Texas nuke San Francisco. Now that is what I call a prescient training mission. ;-)
Of course that is what I would say, wink, wink...
As a child back in 1954-55, in Farmington New Mexico, I saw one fly low over the city, heading south. The thing I really remembered was the propellers were on the back end of the engines.
I wonder if this is related to the Great Kracken Release scare that they never told us about.
It was obvious from the description by the guy that found it that it was not a bomb.
A B36 was on static display at Chanute AFB in Illinois when I was in tech school in 1973. Hugh plane. (This pic is not Chanute, BTW)
I lived alongside the runway at Carswell for a while in 1956; when they took-off the ground shook.
well, the real nuke is lying on the floor of the Atlantic just off of Tybee Island. no one seems today to know where it is. look it up....
Just curious. Do you, or anyone on the thread know the designation of the airplane in the upper left of the picture?
I’ve never seen the type before.
Good book on the subject. Interesting style of writing. Presents the facts at the time of the incident. Presents later revelations. Speculates on the truth.
https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Nuke-Flight-Bomber-Revised/dp/1772031283
I’m curious too, please ping me if you get an answer.
“an industrial hunk of steel”
Is that the technical name for it?
Ben’s biceps.
LOL
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