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Due to buffeting stresses, [2] the stabilizer shaft broke [1] and the B-52's vertical stabilizer came off the plane. It was found 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from where the plane struck the mountain side. [4] With the loss of the vertical stabilizer, the aircraft had lost its directional stability and rolled uncontrollably.
On 24 January, a B-52C (tail number 53‑0406) on a training mission out of Westover AFB, lost its vertical stabilizer due to buffeting during low-level flight, and crashed on the west side of Elephant Mountain near Greenville, Maine. Of the nine crew members aboard, two survived the crash.
The 1964 Savage Mountain B-52 crash was a U.S. military nuclear accident in which a Cold War bomber's vertical stabilizer broke off in winter storm turbulence. [3] The two nuclear bombs being ferried were found "relatively intact in the middle of the wreckage", according to a later U.S. Department of Defense summary, [4] and after Fort Meade's 28th Ordnance Detachment secured them, [5] the ...
1963 Elephant Mountain B-52 crash: Maine, United States B-52 Stratofortress: Unknowingly exceeded design capability 7 Loss of vertical stabilizer 1963-01-30 1963 B-52 crash in New Mexico New Mexico, United States B-52 Stratofortress: Unknowingly exceeded design capability 2 Near Mora: [7] loss of vertical stabilizer [8] 1964-01-04 1964 B-57 crash
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.
1964 – A United States Air Force B-52D Stratofortress carrying two Mark 53 nuclear bombs loses its vertical stabilizer in turbulence during a winter storm and crashes on Savage Mountain near Barton, Maryland -- this is known as the 1964 Savage Mountain B-52 crash. Only two of the five crewmen survive. The bombs are recovered two days later.
1964 – The 1964 Savage Mountain B-52 crash: A United States Air Force B-52D Stratofortress carrying two Mark 53 nuclear bombs loses its vertical stabilizer in turbulence during a winter storm and crashes on Savage Mountain near Barton, Maryland. Only two of the five crewmen survive.
The investigation board felt that the most likely cause of this runaway stabilizer trim was a system malfunction that would have led the stabilizer trim to improperly run in a nose-down direction. The improper trim setting occurred somewhere between 14,000 and 10,000 feet (3,000 m) and caused a rapid and uncontrollable descent the experienced ...