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The aircraft may also be the second B-52 to be claimed as a air-to-air victory for the MiG-21 This would correspond to Vu Xuan Thieu firing a K-13 (AA-2 Atoll) AAM from his MiG-21 based at Cam Thuy. The MiG-21 was also destroyed by the explosion. It is claimed that Vu Xuan Thieu deliberately rammed the B-52.
The fire resulting from the aborted takeoff ignited the aircraft's fuel and detonated the 30,000-pound (13,600 kg) bomb load of twenty-four 500 lb (230 kg) bombs, (twelve under each wing) and forty two 750 lb (340 kg) bombs inside the bomb bay and caused a blast so powerful that it created an immense crater under the burning aircraft some thirty feet (9 m) deep and sixty feet (18 m) across.
Low-level B-52 missions were typically flown at 300 to 500 ft (91 to 152 m) above ground level. Some of the aircraft stationed at Westover were loaned to other bases during the late 1960s and early 1970s, due to SAC use of later model B-52s in combat in Southeast Asia, beginning with Operation Rolling Thunder in March 1965.
Three U.S. Air Force B-52G aircraft depart Barksdale AFB during a MITO exercise in 1986. A minimum interval takeoff (MITO) is a technique of the United States Air Force for scrambling all available bomber and tanker aircraft at twelve- and fifteen-second intervals, respectively. [1]
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The B-52 aircraft, callsign Czar 52, [6] took off at 13:58 and completed most of the mission's elements without incident. Upon preparing to execute the touch-and-go on Runway 23 at the end of the practice profile, the aircraft was instructed to go around because a KC-135 aircraft had just landed and was on the runway.
Video recorded by bystanders appears to show the harrowing moment when the two aircraft crashed into one another, causing a fiery explosion over the nation's capital. Watch it above.
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