B-52 Crash Site

This B-52 Stratofortress-C crashed on Elephant Mountain on January 24, 1963. The crew left Westover Air Force Base in Massachusetts at 12:11 p.m. on a routine mission practicing low level navigation to avoid the newest Soviet radar technology. Just after passing Brownville Junction in the center of Maine, the aircraft encountered turbulence. The pilot and crew commander, Westover's Most Senior Standardization Instructor Pilot, started to climb above it when the vertical stabilizer came off the plane with a "loud noise sounding like an explosion". Having suffered severe damage, the B-52C went into an 40 degree right turn, pointing its nose down. The pilot ordered to abandon the Boeing when he could not level it.

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[pabobfin]

Any survivors?

[brettman98]

@pabobfin , The pilot and navigator survived the crash.

[MrTroll199]

whin i visited here it started to downpour and i sliped and almost sliced myself on a piece of metal.