6/2/2023 0 Comments Crested arrow picturesThe bomber crashed onto sea ice in North Star Bay, Greenland, causing the conventional explosives aboard to detonate and the nuclear payload to rupture and disperse, resulting in radioactive contamination of the area. Six crew members ejected safely, but one who did not have an ejection seat was killed while trying to bail out. The aircraft was carrying four B28FI thermonuclear bombs on a Cold War " Chrome Dome" alert mission over Baffin Bay when a cabin fire forced the crew to abandon the aircraft before they could carry out an emergency landing at Thule Air Base. On 21 January 1968, an aircraft accident, sometimes known as the Thule affair or Thule accident ( / ˈ t uː l i/ Danish: Thuleulykken), involving a United States Air Force (USAF) B-52 bomber occurred near Thule Air Base in the Danish territory of Greenland.
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