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B-52 C 54-2666 Crewmen The crew that flew Hiram 16 on its final mission on 7 January 1971 were all veterans of the Vietnam War . They had been loaned by the SAC to assist in that war effort and were back stateside [ clarification needed ] by January 1971 to participate in a Cold War training mission that involved a low level flight over ...
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 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.
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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.
The storm was so powerful that it knocked a 185,000-pound (83,000-kg) B-52 bomber jet off its platform at the Griffiss Air Force Base, according to Hochul. "You cannot imagine the impact of seeing ...